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Representations of the Vietnam War
Selected Novels:
Baber, Asa. The Land of a Million Elephants. 2nd ed. reprint. Vietnam Generation Series. Burning Cities Press, 1992.
Bao Ninh. The Sorrow of War. London: Martin Secker and Warburg, 1993; New York: Pantheon; reprint paper, Riverhead Books, 1996.
Browne, Corinne. Body Shop. New York: Stein and Day, 1973.
Bunting, Josiah. The Lionheads. New York: George Braziller, 1972; Popular Library, 1972.
Burdick, Eugene and William Lederer. The Ugly American. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958; reprint paper, Fawcett, 1987.
Butler, Robert Olen. The Alleys of Eden : A Novel. New York: Horizon, 1981; Ballantine, 1983; reissue paper, Owlet, 1994.
---------. On Distant Ground. New York: Knopf, 1985.
---------. They Whisper. New York: Henry Holt, 1994.
Caputo, Philip. DelCorso's Gallery. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1983.
Cassidy, John. A Station in the Delta. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979; Ballantine, 1989.
Corder, E.M. The Deer Hunter. New York: Exeter Books, 1978; Jove, 1979.
Coonts, Stephen. Flight of the Intruder. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1986; New York: Pocket Books, 1991.
Crumley, James. One To Count Cadence. New York: Random House, 1969; Vintage, 1987.
Del Vecchio, John. The 13th Valley. New York: Bantam, 1982.
Duong Thu Huong. Paradise of the Blind. New York: William Morrow & Co, 1993; Penguin
USA, 1994.
Dye, Dale. Platoon. New York: Charter, 1986. Based on the screenplay by Oliver Stone.
Eastlake, William. The Bamboo Bed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969.
Ford, Daniel. Incident At Muc Wa. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co, 1967. This book is
also currently available directly from the author on disk at:
http://www.danford.net/novel.htm.
Glasser, Ronald J. Another War, Another Peace. New York: Summit Books, 1985.
Greene, Graham. The Quiet American. New York: Viking, 1955; reprint, Modern Library, 1992; reissue paper, Penguin USA, 1991.
Groom, Winston. Forrest Gump. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1986.
Hasford, Gustav. The Short Timers. New York: Harper & Row, 1980. Full Metal Jacket is based on this novel.
Heinemann, Larry. Close Quarters. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1977.
--------. Paco's Story. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1986; reprint paper, Viking, 1989.
Huggett, William Turner. Body Count. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.
Karl, Terry. Children of the Dragon. San Francisco: People's Press, 1974. Children's book.
Karlin, Wayne, Le Minh Khue, and Truong Vu, editors. The Other Side of Heaven: Postwar Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers. Wiilimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1995.
Compilation of works from the US, Vietnam and the overseas Vietnamese communities.
Mason, Bobbie Ann. In Country : A Novel. New York: Harper Row, 1985; reissue paper, Harperperennial, 1993.
Merkin, Robert. Zombie Jamboree. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.
Myers, Walter Dean. Fallen Angels. New York: Scholastic, 1988. Adolescent fiction.
O'Brien, Tim. Going After Cacciato. New York: Delacorte Press, 1980; Dell, 1980; reissue paper, Delacorte Press, 1989.
--------. In the Lake of the Woods. New York: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1994.
--------. The Things They Carried. New York: Penquin, 1990; reprint paper, Penguin USA, 1991.
Pelfrey, William. The Big V. New York: Liveright, 1972.
--------. Hamburger Hill. New York: Avon, 1987. Based on the screenplay by Jim Carabatsos.
Pratt, John Clark. The Laotian Fragments. New York: Viking, 1974.
Rubin, Jonathan. The Barking Deer. New York: George Braziller, 1974.
A surrealistic fable, set in the Central Highlands during the advisory years. The work may not be for everyone, but it deals with the universal anti-war issue of what happens to all the people who are sucked along in the grand "visions" of opposing forces going to war.
Stone, Robert. Dog Soldiers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974; reprint paper, New York: Penguin USA, 1989.
Webb, James. Fields of Fire. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1978; reprint paper, New York: Pocket Books, 1993.
Weinberg, Larry. War Zone. New York: Bantam, 1985. Adolescent fiction.
Williams, John. Captain Blackman. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972.
Willson, David. REMF Diary. Seattle: Black Heron, 1988.
Wright, Stephen. Meditations in Green. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983; reissue paperback, Delta, 1996.
Poetry
Anderson, Doug. The Moon Reflected Fire. Cambridge, MA: Alice James Books, 1994.
Balaban, John. After Our War. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1974.
Berry, D. C. Saigon Cemetery. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1972.
Ehrhart, W. D. To Those Who Have Come Home Tired. New York: Thunder Mountain, 1984.
Ehrhart, W. D. ed. Carrying the Darkness : The Poetry of the Vietnam War. Lubbock: Texas
Tech University Press, 1989.
McDonald, Walter. Caliban in Blue. Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 1976.
Miller, Stephen P. An Act of God (Memories of Vietnam). Eureka, CA: Northcoast View
Press, 1987. Available from publisher at: Post Office Box 1374, Eureka, CA 95502.
Rottman, Larry, Jan Berry, and Basil T. Paquet, eds. Winning Hearts and Minds. Perkasie,
PA: East River Anthology, 1972.
Shea, Dick. Vietnam Simply. Coronada, CA: Pro Tem, 1967.
Van Devanter, Lynda and Joan A. Furey, eds. Visions of War, Dreams of Peace : Writings of Women in the Vietnam War. New York: Warner Books, 1991.
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