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Peace Activists, Religious Groups
Personal Accounts, Biographies, Oral Histories--A Selected Bibliography

Aptheker, Herbert. Mission To Hanoi. New York: International Publishers, 1966.

Boardman, Elizabeth Jelinek. The Phoenix Trip: Notes on a Quaker Mission to Haiphong. Burnsville, N.C.: Celo Press, 1985

Bowers, Curt, as told to Glen Van Dyne. Forward Edge of Battle: A Chaplain's Story. Kansas City, Mo.: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 1987.

Dowdy, Homer D. The Bamboo Cross: Christian Witness in the Jungles of Viet Nam. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.

Eby, Omar. A House in Hue. Scottsdale, Penn.: Herald Press, 1968.

Falabella, J. Robert. Vietnam Memoirs: A Passage to Sorrow. New York: Pageant Press International, 1971.

Feinberg, Abraham L. Rabbi Feinberg's Hanoi Diary. Don Mills, Ontario, Canada: Longmans, 1968.

Ford, Herbert. No Guns on Their Shoulders. Nashville, Tenn.: Southern Publishing Association, 1968.

Hanna, Peggy. Patriotism, Peace & Vietnam: A Memoir. Springfield, Ohio: Left to Write, 2003.

Hutchens, James M. Beyond Combat. Chicago: Moody Press, 1968.

Johnson, Raymond W. Postmark: Mekong Delta. Westwood, N.Y.: Fleming H. Revell, 1968.

Mahedy, William P. Out of the Night: The Spiritual Journey of Vietnam Vets. New York: Ballantine, 1986.

Martin, Earl S. Reaching the Other Side: The Journal of an American Who Stayed to Witness Vietnam's Postwar Transition. New York: Crown, 1978.

O'Connor, John J. A Chaplain Looks at Vietnam. Cleveland: World, 1968.

Pierce, Bob, Nguyen Van Duc, and Larry Ward. Big Day at Da Me. Waco, Tex.: Word Books, 1968.

Rosenberger, Mary Sue H. Harmless as Doves: Witnessing for Peace in Vietnam. Elgin, Ill.: Brethern Press, 1988.

Smith, Luara Irene. Ten Dangerous Years. Chicago: Moody Press, 1975.

Watts, Ralph S. Saigon: The Final Days. Boise, Id.: Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1990.

 

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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