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Anthologies
A Selected Bibliography

An anthology is a collection of different types of writing--poetry, short stories, essays, etc.--in one book.

Adler, Bill, ed. Letters from Vietnam. New York: Parallax, 1966.

Baker, Mark. Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women Who Fought There. New York: Morrow, 1981.

Beesley, Stanley W. Vietnam: The Heartland Remembers. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.

Brandon, Heather. Casualties: Death in Vietnam, Anguish and Survival in America. New York: St. Martin's, 1984.

Chinnery, Philip D. Life on the Line: Stories of Vietnam Air Combat. New York: St. Martin's, 1988.

Denenberg, Barry. Voices from Vietnam. New York: Scholastic, 1995.

Dockery, Kevin and Bill Fawcett, eds. The Teams: An Oral History of the U.S. Navy SEALs. New York: Morrow, 1998.

Dougan, Clark, and Stephen Weiss. The American Experience in Vietnam. New York: Norton, 1988.

Edelman, Bernard, ed. Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. New York: Norton, 1985.

Engelmann, Larry. Tears Before the Rain: An Oral History of the Fall of South Vietnam. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Fawcett, Bill, ed. Hunters and Shooters. An Oral History of the U.S. Navy SEALS in Vietnam. New York: Morrow, 1995.

Frey, Bill and Bradshaw Frey, comp. Letters From 'Nam. New York: Warner Books, 1992.

Greene, Bob. Homecoming: When the Soldiers Returned from Vietnam. New York: Putnam, 1989.

Gullickson, Gary D., comp. and David "Doc" Anderson, ed. Vietnam: Our Story--One on One. Ritzville, Wash.: Ritz Publishing, 1991.

Hansen, J. T., A. Susan Owen, and Michael Patrick Madden. Parallels: The Soldiers' Knowledge and the Oral History of Contemporary Warfare. New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992.

Hynes, Samuel. The Soldier's Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War. New York: Allen Lane, 1997.

Kimball, William R. Vietnam: The Other Side of Glory. Canton, Ohio: Daring Books, 1987.

Kingston, Maxine Hong. Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace. Kihei, Hawaii: Koa Books, 2006.

Lane, Mark. Conversations with Americans. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970.

Lehrack, Otto J., ed. No Shining Armor: The Marines at War in Vietnam; An Oral History. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 1992.

Levinson, Jeffrey L. Alpha Strike Vietnam: The Navy's Air War, 1964 to 1973. Novato, Calif: Presidio Press, 1989.

Lowry, Timothy S. Valor. New York: Berkley Books, 1989.

Maclear, Michael. The Ten Thousand Day War: Vietnam: 1945-1975. New York: St. Martin's, 1981.

MacPherson, Myra. Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1984.

Marshall, Kathryn. In the Combat Zone: An Oral History of American Women in Vietnam, 1966-1975. Boston: Little, Brown, 1987.

Mauer, Harry. Strange Ground: Americans in Vietnam, 1945-1975, An Oral History. New York: Henry Holt, 1989.

Miner, Ernest. Vietnam by Those Who Served: The War that Was and Was Not. Great Neck, N.Y.: Todd & Honeywell, 1985.

Munson, Glenn. Letters from Vietnam. New York: Parallax, 1966.

O'Nan, Stewart, ed. The Vietnam Reader: The Definitive Collection of AMerican Fiction and Nonfiction on the War. New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1998.

Palmer, Laura. Shrapnel in the Heart: Letters and Remembrances from the Vietnam Memorial. New York: Random House, 1987.

Santoli, Al, ed. Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Thirty-Three American Soldiers Who Fought It. New York: Random House, 1981.

Spiller, Harry. Scars of Vietnam: Personal Accounts by Veterans and Their Families. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1994.

Stevens, Michael E., ed. Voices from Vietnam. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1996.

Walker, Keith. A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of 26 American Women Who Served in Vietnam. Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1985.

Weiss, Stephen. A War Remembered: Voices from Vietnam. Boston: Boston Publishing Company, 1986.

Wexler, Sanford. The Vietnam War: An Eyewitness History. New York: Facts on File, 1992.

For additional information, see Wittman, Sandra. Writing About Vietnam: A Bibliography of the Literature of the Vietnam Conflict. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989.

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