Appearances to the contrary, and while not unrelated, this is not my Memorial Day post (for which, see below). I simply wanted to add some essential titles to the Vietnam War bibliography posted at Ratio Juris on May 18.
- Appy, Christian G. Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
- Bodard, Lucien. The Quicksand War: Prelude to Vietnam. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1967.
- Capps, Walter. The Unfinished War: Vietnam and the American Conscience. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2nd ed., 1990.
- Egendorf, Arthur. Healing from the War: Trauma and Transformation after Vietnam. Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications, 1986.
- Falk, Richard A., ed. The Vietnam War and International Law, 4 Vols. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press (sponsored by the American Society of International Law), 1968-1976.
- Fall, Bernard B. Street Without Joy: From the Indo-China War to the War in Viet-Nam. Harrison, PA: Stackpole Books, (1961) 1967.
- Fall, Bernard B. Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu. Boston, MA: Da Capo Press, 2nd ed., 2002 (1966).
- Franklin, H. Bruce. M.I.A. or Mythmaking in America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993.
- Franklin, H. Bruce. Vietnam and Other American Fantasies. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.
- Hershberg, James G. Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012.
- Khong, Yuen Foong. Analogies at War: Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu, and the Vietnam Decisions of 1965. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992.
- Proceedings of the Russell International War Crimes Tribunal (John Duffett, ed.) Against the Crime of Silence. New York: Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation/Flanders, NJ: O’Hare Books, 1968.
- Russell, Bertrand. War Crimes in Vietnam. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1967.
- Shay, Jonathan. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
- Shawcross, William. Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979; revised ed., Copper Square Press, 2002.
- Vietnam Veterans Against the War. The Winter Soldier Investigation: An Inquiry into American War Crimes. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1972.
- Vogelgesang, Sandy. The Long Dark Night of the Soul: The American Intellectual Left and the Vietnam War. New York: Harper & Row, 1974.
- Wilcox, Fred A. Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2011.
- Wilcox, Fred A. Waiting for an Army to Die: The Tragedy of Agent Orange. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2nd ed., 2011.
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