Titles marked with an asterisk are particularly suited to young readers.
Appy, Christian G. Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides. New York: Penguin Books, 2004.
Baez, Joan. And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir. New York: Summit Books, 1987.
Baez, Joan. Daybreak. New York: Dial, 1966.
Bartimus, Tad, et al. War Torn: Stories from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam. New York: Random House, 2002.
Bauer, Kay M. “Catherine (Kay) M. Bauer.” In Vietnam War Nurses: Personal Accounts of 18 Americans, edited by Patricia Rushton, 11–21. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013.
Bissell, Tom. The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam. New York: Pantheon, 2007.
Bradley, Doug, and Craig Werner. We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015.
Caputo, Philip. A Rumor of War. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977.
*Caputo, Philip. 10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005.
Chanoff, David, and Doan Van Toai. Portrait of the Enemy: The Other Side of Vietnam, Told Through Interviews with North Vietnamese, Former Vietcong and Southern Opposition Leaders. New York: Random House, 1986.
Chong, Denise. The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War. New York: Penguin Books, 2001.
Dang, Thuy Tram. Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram. Translated by Andrew X. Pham. New York: Harmony Books, 2007.
Elliott, Duong Van Mai. The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Fall, Bernard B. Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 1966.
FitzGerald, Frances. Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.
*Freedman, Russell. Vietnam: A History of the War. New York: Holiday House, 2016.
Galard, Geneviève de. The Angel of Dien Bien Phu: The Lone French Woman at the Decisive Battle for Vietnam. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2010.
Green, Bob. Homecoming: When the Soldiers Returned from Vietnam. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1989.
Hajdu, David. Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2001.
Hall, Simon. Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements of the 1960s. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
Hayslip, Le Ly, with James Hayslip. Child of War, Woman of Peace. New York: Doubleday, 1993.
Hayslip, Le Ly, with Jay Wurts. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman’s Journey from War to Peace. New York: Doubleday, 1989.
Heikkila, Kim. Sisterhood of War: Minnesota Women in Vietnam. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2011.
Herring, George C. America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950–1975. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.
Hoffmann, Joyce. On Their Own: Women Journalists and the American Experience in Vietnam. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2008.
Hovis, Bobbi. Station Hospital Saigon: A Navy Nurse in Vietnam, 1963–1964. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1992.
Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History—the First Complete Account of Vietnam at War. New York: Viking, 1983.
Kazickas, Jurate. “These Hills Called Khe Sanh.” In War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam, Tad Bartimus et al., 121–153. New York: Random House, 2002.
Kusch, Frank. Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004.
Neu, Charles E., ed. After Vietnam: Legacies of a Lost War. New York: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Roser, Iris Mary. Ba Rose: My Years in Vietnam, 1968–1971. Sydney: Pan Books, 1991.
Schmitz, David F. Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War: The End of the American Century. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
*Sheinkin, Steve. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War. New York: Roaring Brook, 2015.
Steinman, Ron. Women in Vietnam: The Oral History. New York: TV Books, 2000.
Taylor, Ethel Barol. We Made a Difference: My Personal Journey with Women Strike for Peace. Philadelphia: Camino Books, 1998.
Townley, Alvin. Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam’s Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2014.
Truong, Nhu Tang, with David Chanoff and Doan Van Toai. A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1985.
Turner, Karen Gottschang, with Phan Thanh Hao. Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
Xuan, Phuong, and Danièle Mazingarbe. Ao Dai: My War, My Country, My Vietnam. New York: EMQUAD International, 2004.
Van Devanter, Lynda, with Christopher Morgan. Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam. New York: Beaufort Books, 1983.
Verrone, Richard Burks, and Laura M. Calkins. Voices from Vietnam: Eye-Witness Accounts of the War, 1954–1975. Exeter, UK: David & Charles, 2005.
Walker, Keith. A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of Twenty-Six American Women Who Served in Vietnam. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1985.
Webb, Kate. “Highpockets.” In War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam, Tad Bartimus et al., 61–89. New York: Random House, 2002.
Webb, Kate. On the Other Side: 23 Days with the Viet Cong. New York: Quadrangle Books, 1972.
Wildwind, Sharon Grant. Dreams That Blister Sleep: A Nurse in Vietnam. Edmonton, AB: River Books, 1999.
Windrow, Martin. The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2006.
Wood, Tracy. “Spies, Lovers, and Prisoners of War.” In War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam, Tad Bartimus et al., 223–249. New York: Random House, 2002.
Zaroulis, Nancy, and Gerald Sullivan. Who Spoke Up? American Protest Against the War in Vietnam 1963–1975. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1984.
“Coup in Saigon: A Nurse Remembers.” Navy Medicine 88, no. 6 (November–December 1977): 16–21. https://archive.org/details/NaWMedicineVol.88No.6November-december1997.
Olson, Wyatt. “40 Years After Release, POWs at Hanoi Hilton Reflect on Experience.” Stars and Stripes, February 10, 2013. www.stripes.com/news/pacific/40-years-after-release-pows-at-hanoi-hilton-reflect-on-experience-1.207382.
“Richard Nixon: Address to the Nation About a New Initiative for Peace in Southeast Asia—October 7, 1970.” American Presidency Project. www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=2708.
Steward, Chad. “Former POW, Ambassador, Shares His Unique Perspective on Vietnam.” On Patrol, summer 2014. http://usoonpatrol.org/archives/2014/08/13/former-pow-ambassador-shares-h.
“Vietnam War Veterans.” The Vietnam War. http://thevietnamwar.info/vietnam-war-veterans/.
Wood, Tracy. “A War Correspondent Turned Lifelong Corruption Fighter,” Voice of Orange County, April 29, 2015. http://voiceofoc.org/2015/04/a-war-correspondent-turned-lifelong-corruption-fighter/.
Baez, Joan. Where Are You Now, My Son? Pickwick Records: 1973.