N. The Anti-War Movement in the US.
Ehrhart, W.D. Passing Time : Memoir of a Vietnam Veteran Against the War.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1989; 2nd ed, Amherst: University of
Masschusetts Press, 1995.
Gioglio, Gerald R.
Days of Decision : An Oral History of Conscientious
Objectors in the Military During the Vietnam War. Trenton: Broken
Rifle Press, 1989.
This work contains the oral history of 24 in-service
conscientious objectors, including some who served in Vietnam as
medics. All services are represented. The histories include the
decision making processes of the individuals, the procedures in the
military for the application for CO status, and the court marshalls of
some of those relating their narratives. Valuable study of the GI
anti-war movement on a personal scale.
Heineman, Kenneth.
Campus Wars : The Peace Movement at American State
Universities in the Vietnam Era. New York: New York University Press,
1994.
Moser, Richard.
The New Winter Soldiers : GI and Veteran Dissent During
the Vietnam Era. Perspectives in the Sixties. New Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers University Press, 1996.
*CORE* Moser, using interviews and oral history, presents a
stunning view of the GI Movement - the anti-war protest that grew
within the military itself in the later stages of the war, as well as
veteran groups (such as the VVAW) who actively opposed the war.
Small, Melvin and William D. Hoover, eds.
Give Peace a Chance : Exploring
the Vietnam Antiwar Movement. Essays from the Charles Debenedetti
Memorial Conference. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1992.
Wells, Tom. The War Within : America's Battle over Vietnam. With a
Foreword by Todd Gitlin. Berkeley: University of California Press,
1994; reprint paper, Henry Holt, 1996.
*CORE* Wells is a sociologist, and presents in this volume the
social impact of the anti-war movement and its effects on government
policies. Based on both written sources and interviews from both
sides, Wells argues the increasing difficulties in communication and
alienation between the two sides, and the media's role as both
propagandist and mediator of their discourse.
O. Aftermath and Remembrance - Veterans Issues.
Kanter, Leona. The Social Construction of Vietnam Veteran's Identity. Ph.
D. diss., University of Pittsburgh, 1988.
Available through UMI Dissertation Information Service.
MacPherson, Myra.
Long Time Passing : Vietnam and the Haunted Generation.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984; Achor Books, 1993.
Puller, Lewis B. Jr.
Fortunate Son : The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller,
Jr. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991; Bantam, 1993.
*CORE* Award winning autobiography of a Marine Lieutenant who
was the son of the legendary general "Chesty" Puller. Puller lost
both legs to a booby trap explosive shorty after starting his tour in
Vietnam. Much of the book deals with the challenges Puller faced in
adjusting to both his injuries and the social environment in the US
concerning the war.
Rohde, Richard R. Identity, Self, and Disorder Among Vietnam Veterans :
PTSD and the Emergence of an Electronic Community. Ph. D. diss.,
University of Hawaii, 1995.
Available through UMI Dissertation Information Service. This is
a very interesting study of both the academic discourse involving the
social science critique of the bio-medical model of PTSD, and of
veterans reaction to it - namely the formation of community. Rohde
examines, in particular, the interplay of veterans on an internet
mailing list, including their own views on such issues as forgiveness
and the interactions of veterans with Dr. Jonathan Shay who presents
the bio-medical model in "Achilles in Vietnam".
Scott, Wilbur J. The Politics of Readjustment : Vietnam Veterans Since the
War. New York: Aldine deGruyter, 1993.
Shay, Jonathan.
Achilles in Vietnam : Combat Trauma and the Undoing of
Character. New York: Atheneum 1994; Touchstone, 1995.
The author is a psychiatrist for the Department of Veterans
Affairs in Boston where he has had extensive dealings with veterans
suffering from PTSD. The book tries to illuminate the causes and
universality of this illness with passages from the classical Greek
epic The Iliad and the witness of Vietnam veterans. An interesting
exploration of the bio-medical model. Readers should note the Shay
sometimes generalizes from the population of severe chronic PTSD
suffers to the wider Vietnam combat veteran population, a weakness in
the book. See also Richard Rohde (above) for a critque of parts of
this model.
Wilcox, Fred A. Waiting for an Army to Die : The Tragedy of Agent Orange.
New York: Vintage, 1983; reprint, Seven Locks Press, 1989.
P. Aftermath and Remembrance - POW/MIAs
Cawthorne, Nigel. The Bamboo Cage: The Full Story of the American
Servicemen Still Held Hostage in South-East Asia. London: Leo Cooper,
1991.
Denton, Jeremiah A., with Ed Brandt. When Hell was in Session. Clover,SC:
Commission Press, 1976.
Franklin, H. Bruce. M.I.A. or Mythmaking In America. Brooklyn, NY:
Lawrence Hill Books, 1992; expanded edition, New Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers University Press, 1993.
Schemmer, Benjamin F. The Raid: The Full Story of the Extraordinary
Top-Secret Mission to Rescue 61 American POWs in a Prison Compound 23
Miles from Hanoi. New York: Harper, 1976
Smith, Chief Warrant Officer Garry L. The Search For MIAs. Columbia, SC:
Honoribus Press, 1992.
Stern, Lewis M. Imprisoned or Missing in Vietnam : Policies of the
Vietnamese Government Toward Captured and Unaccounted for United
States Soldiers 1969-1994. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1995.
Stockdale, Jim and Sybil. In Love and War. New York: Harper and Row,
1984.
United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs (John
F. Kerry, Chair). POW/MIAs, Report of the Select Committee on POW/MIA
Affairs, January 13, 1993. 103rd Congress, 1st Session, U. S. Senate
Report 103-1. Washington: GPO, 1993.
R. Document Collections and Reference Works.
Gettleman, Marvin E., Jane Franklin, Marilyn Young, and H. Bruce Franklin,
ed. Vietnam and America : A Documented History. New York: Grove
Press, 1985; 2nd rev ed, Grove Atlantic, 1995.
The Pentagon Papers : The Defense Department History of United States
Decisionmaking on Vietnam. Boston: Beacon Press, 1971, 1972. 5 vols.
There are three versions of the Pentagon Papers, the others
being:
1. U.S. Congress, House Committee on Armed Services. United
States-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967 : A Study Prepared by The
Department of Defense. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing
Office, 1971. 12 volumes. and
2. The Pentagon Papers. New York: Bantam Books, 1971.
All are
recommended. The Bantam version primarily contains summaries of the
documents by the staff of the New York Times rather than the documents
themselves....
[None of the above are presently in print. There is an
abridged
version from McGraw Hill. -- DF]
Olson, James S. ed.
The Vietnam War : Handbook of the Literature and
Research. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993.
Stanton, Shelby L. Vietnam Order of Battle. Foreword by Gen. William C.
Westmoreland. New York: Galahad Books, 1986.
Summers, Col. Harry G., Jr. The Vietnam War Almanac. New York: Facts on
File, 1985.
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