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Surveys[edit]

Anderson, David L. Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War (2004). excerpt and text search
Anderson, David L. The Vietnam War. (2005). 152 pp.
Davidson, Phillip B. Vietnam at War: The History, 1946-1975 1988), by the US chief of military intelligence in Vietnam from 1967 to 1969; heavy use of captured Communist documents excerpt and text search
Herring, George C. America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950–1975 (4th ed 2001), most widely used short history.
Jensen, Richard. "Victory and Defeat in the Vietnam War," in Jensen et al, eds. Trans-Pacific Relations: America, Europe, and Asia in the Twentieth Century (2003) pp 171-216 .online edition
Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History (1983), popular history by journalist; strong on Saigon's plans. excerpt and text search
Kolko, Gabriel. Anatomy of a War (1985), by prominent antiwar historian
Kutler, Stanley ed. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War (1996). 711pp; essays by experts
McMahon, Robert J. Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War: Documents and Essays (1995) textbook.
Moïse, Edwin E. Historical Dictionary of the Vietnam War. (2002). 493 pp.
Moyar, Mark. Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965. (2006). 400 pp. vol 1, strong on Vietnamese sources; well received by conservatives. excerpt and text search
Neu, Charles E. America's Lost War: Vietnam, 1945-1975. (2005). 272 pp.
Schulzinger, Robert D. Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975. (1997) online edition
Tucker, Spencer. ed. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War (1998) 3 vol. 1320 pp; also one-volume 578 pp abridgement (2000). excerpt and text search
Tucker, Spencer. Vietnam. (1999) 226pp. online edition
Wiest, Andrew. The Vietnam War, 1956-1975 (2003). 95pp online edition
Young, Marilyn B. and Buzzanco, Robert, eds. A Companion to the Vietnam War. (2002). 514 pp. 24 essays by antiwar scholars excerpt and text search

North Vietnam and allies[edit]

Ang, Cheng Guan. Vietnam War from the Other Side (2002) excerpt and text search
Chen, Jian. "China's Involvement in the Vietnam War, 1964-1969," China Quarterly (1995) 142: 357-387.
Currey, Cecil B. Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam's Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap (2005)
Davidson, Phillip B. Vietnam at War: The History, 1946-1975 1988), by the US chief of military intelligence in Vietnam from 1967 to 1969; heavy use of captured Communist documents excerpt and text search
Duiker, William J. Ho Chi Minh (2000). excerpt and text search
Duiker, William J. Sacred War: Nationalism and Revolution in a Divided Vietnam (1994)
Gilbert, Marc Jason. Why The North Won The Vietnam War (2002) excerpt and text search
Lanning, Michael Lee, and Dan Cragg, Inside the VC and the NVA: The Real Story of North Vietnam's Armed Forces (1992)
Pike, Douglas. PAVN: People's Army of Vietnam (1986)
Tai, Hue-Tam Ho. The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam (2001) excerpt and text search
Tin, Bui. Following Ho Chi Minh: The Memoirs of a North Vietnamese Colonel (1999) Primary source. Highly revealing memoir by a prominent Vietnamese journalist who left for France in 1990. He joined the revoution in 1945, became a Colonel in the People's Army. excerpt and text search
Zhai, Qiang. China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975 (2000); excerpt and text search

Military studies[edit]

Bergerud, Eric M. The Dynamics of Defeat: The Vietnam War in Hau Nghia Province (1991) excerpt and text search
Bergerud, Eric M. Red Thunder, Tropic Lightning: The World of a Combat Division in Vietnam (1994). excerpt and text search
Buzzanco, Robert. Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era (1996) excerpt and text search
Brigham, Robert K. ARVN: Life and Death in the South Vietnamese Army. (2006). 178 pp. excerpt and text search
Butler, David. Fall of Saigon, (1986). on 1975
Carland, John M. Stemming the Tide, May 1965 to October 1966 Combat Operations (2000) 410 pp. official US Army history
Clarke, Jeffrey C. Advice and Support: The Final Years, 1965-1973 (1988), official U.S. Army history
Clodfelter, Mark. The Limits of Airpower: The American Bombing of North Vietnam (1989), influential study online edition
Cosmas, Graham A., and LtCol Terrence P. Murray. U.S. Marines in Vietnam, Vietnamization and Redeployment, 1970-1971 (1986) full text online
Davidson, Phillip B. Vietnam at War: The History: 1946-1975 (1989) excerpt and text search
Elliott, David W. P. The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-1975 (2 vol 2002), 1584 pp; the condensed paperback version runs 540pp
Gates, John M. The U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare ch 7 online
Krepinevich, Jr. Andrew W. The Army and Vietnam (1986) excerpt and text search
Leonard, Raymond W. "Learning from History: Linebacker II and U.S. Air Force Doctrine." Journal of Military History (1994), 58 267-303. in JSTOR
Lewy, Guenter. America in Vietnam (1978), defends U.S. actions. excerpt and text search
MacGarrigle George L. Taking the Offensive, October 1966 to October 1967 Combat Operations (1998), official US Army history;
McMaster, H. R. Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam (1997). excerpt and text search
Military History Institute of Vietnam, Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People's Army of Vietnam, 1954-1975 (2002), 484pp; Hanoi's official historyexcerpt and text search
Pape, Robert A. "Coercive Air Power in the Vietnam War," International Security (1990) 15: 103-146; in JSTOR
Shulimson, Jack. The Marine War: III MAF in Vietnam, 1965-1971 (1996), short history online edition
Shulimson, Jack, Lieutenant Colonel Leonard A. Blasiol, and Charles R. Smith. US Marines in Vietnam, 1968: The Defining Year (1997) online
Smith. John. Rolling Thunder: The Strategic Bombing Campaign, North Vietnam 1965-1968 (1995) excerpt and text search
Sorley, Lewis. Honorable Warrior: General Harold K. Johnson and the Ethics of Command (1998).
Sorley, Lewis. Thunderbolt: General Creighton Abrams and the Army of His Times (1992)
Sorley ; Lewis. A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and the Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam (1999), based on hundreds of interviews excerpt and text search
Spector, Ronald H. Advice and Support: The Early Years, 1941-1960 (2005)
Spector, Ronald H. After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam (1994) excerpt and text search
Stanton. Shelby L. The Rise and Fall of an American Army: U.S. Ground Forces in Vietnam, 1965-1973 (1985)
Summers, Harry G. On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War (1982), influential interpretation excerpt and text search; also online edition
Thayer, Thomas C. War Without Fronts (1985), statistical.
Thompson, James Clay. Rolling Thunder: Understanding Policy and Program Failure (1980).
Willbanks, James H. The Tet Offensive: A Concise History (2006) excerpt and text search
Zaffiri, Samuel. Westmoreland: A Biography of General William C. Westmoreland (1994)

Politics and diplomacy[edit]

Berman, Larry. Lyndon Johnson's War: The Road to Stalemate (1991). online edition
Bundy, William P. Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency (1998) excerpt and text search
Daum, Andreas W. Lloyd C. Gardner, and Wilfried Mausbach, eds. America, the Vietnam War, and the World: Comparative and International Perspectives, (2003) 371 pp. essays by scholars
Freedman, Lawrence. Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam (2000) excerpt and text search
Friedman, Michael Jay "Congress, the President, and the Battle of Ideas: Vietnam Policy, 1965-1969, " Essays in History (1999), online
Hanhimäki, Jussi M.'Dr. Kissinger' or 'Mr. Henry'? Kissingerology, Thirty Years and Counting." Diplomatic History 2003 27(5): 637-676 full text at EBSCO
Jacobs, Seth. Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950-1963. (2006). 207 pp.
Kahin, George McTurnan. Intervention: how America became involved in Vietnam (1986) online at ACLS e-books
Kaiser, David. American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War (2000). excerpt and text search
Logevall, Frederik. Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam (1999). excerpt and text search
Smith, R. B. The International History of the Vietnam War (3 vol. 1991)
Willbanks, James H. Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War. (2004). 384 pp.

Literature, memoirs, films, memory[edit]

Appy, Christian. Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides. (2003). 491 pp.
Bradley, Mark Philip. Imagining Vietnam and America: The Making of Postcolonial Vietnam, 1919-1950 (2001)
Clymer, Kenton J., ed. The Vietnam War: Its History, Literature and Music. (1998). 195 pp.
Hammond, William M. Public Affairs: The Military and the Media, 1968-1973 (1996)
Heineman, Kenneth. "The Silent Majority Speaks: Antiwar Protest and Backlash, 1965-1972," Peace & Change (1992) 17: 402-433.
Herr, Michael. Dispatches (1977), a novel
Hillstrom, Kevin, and Laurie Collier Hillstrom. The Vietnam Experience: A Concise Encyclopedia of American Literature, Songs, and Films (1998) excerpt and text search
Tai, Hue-Tam Ho. The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam (2001) excerpt and text search
Taylor, Mark. The Vietnam War in History, Literature and Film. (2003). 160 pp.
Willbanks, James H. Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost Its War (2004) excerpt and text search

Historiography[edit]

Anderson, David L. Columbia Guide to the Vietnam War (2004). excerpt and text search
Dunn, Joe P. "In Search of Lessons: The Development of Vietnam Historiography," in Lloyd J. Matthews, and Dale E. Brown. eds. Assessing the Vietnam War (1987), 19-31
Fisher, Christopher T. "Nation Building and the Vietnam War: A Historiography." Pacific Historical Review, Aug 2005, Vol. 74 Issue 3, p441-456,
Herman, Arthur. Who Owns the Vietnam War?" Commentary, (Dec 2007), Vol. 124, Issue 5; full text in EBSCO
Hess, Gary R. "The Military Perspective on Strategy in Vietnam." Diplomatic History1986) 10: 91-106;
Moyar, Mark. "Vietnam: Historians at War." Academic Questions, Spring 2008, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p37-51, by conservative historian
Taylor, Mark. The Vietnam War in History, Literature and Film. (2003). 160 pp.

Primary sources[edit]

Abrams, Creighton. Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972 (2004), 917pp; edited by Lewis Sorley; primary source; transcripts of briefings and meetings of Abrams as in Vietnam from 1968-72, especially the Weekly Intelligence Estimate Update. excerpt and text search
Barrett, David M. ed. Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam Papers: A Documentary Collection (1997)
The Pentagon Papers (Gravel ed. 5 vol 1971); combination of narrative and secret documents compiled by Pentagon. excerpts
US Department of State. Foreign Relations of the United States 1964-1968. Vietnam (4 vol 1992-98) The single richest collection of U.S. source materials, with complete text of major documents; vol 1 1964-1968; vol 2 January-June 1965; vol 3 June-December 1965; vol 4 1966

Memoirs and oral history[edit]

Appy, Christian G. Vietnam a New History of the Conflict from All Sides: The Definitive Oral History (2008) 608 pages
Moore, Harold. We were soldiers once, and young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed The War In Vietnam, (1992)
Thi, Lam Quang. The Twenty-Five Year Century: A South Vietnamese General Remembers the Indochina War to the Fall of Saigon (2002), online edition.
Truong, Nhu Tang. A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath (1986), memoir by former NLF Minister of Justice. excerpt and text search
Westmoreland, William C. Westmoreland, A Soldier Reports (1976),