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The Vietnamese Perspective on the War
A Selected Bibliography

Ashwill, Mark, with Thai Ngoc Diep. Vietnam Today: A Nation at a Crossroads. Intercultural Press, 2004.

Bass, Thomas. Vietnamerica: The War Comes Home. New York: Soho Press, 1996.

Branfman, Fred. Voices from the Plain of Jars: Life Under an Air War. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

Broyles, William. Brothers in Arms: A Journey from War to Peace. New York: Knopf, 1986.

Bui Diem with David Chanoff. In the Jaws of History. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1987.

Chanoff, David. Vietnam: A Portrait of Its People at War. New York: I.B. Tauris/St. Martin's, 1996.

Chanoff, David and Doan Van Toai. Portrait of the Enemy. New York: Random House, 1986.

Chong, Denise. The Girl in the Picture: The Kim Phuc Story. Toronto: Viking, 1998.

Ðang, Thùy Trâm. Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram. New York: Harmony Books, 2007.

De Bonis, Steven. Children of the Enemy: Oral Histories of Vietnamese Amerasians and Their Mothers. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1995.

Do Kien and Julie Kane. Counterpart: A South Vietnamese Naval Officer's War. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1998.

Doan Van Toai and David Chanoff. The Vietnamese Gulag. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.

Edwards, Charlene. Voices from Vietnam: The Tragedies and Triumphs of Americans and Vietnamese--Two Peoples Forever Entwined by the Legacy of War. Bayside, N.Y.: Bayside, 2002.

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

Freeman, James M. Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1989.

Hawthorne, Leslyanne, ed. Refugee: The Vietnamese Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Hayslip, Le Ly. Child of War, Woman of Peace. New York: Doubleday, 1993.

Hayslip, Le Ly and Jay Wurts. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace. New York: Doubleday, 1989.

Hess, Martha. Then the Americans Came: Voices from Vietnam. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994.

Huynh, Jade Ngoc Quang. South Wind Changing St. Paul, Minn.: Greywolf Press, 1994.

Kien Do and Julie Kane. Counterpart: A South Vietnamese Naval Officer's War. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1998.

Kim Ha. Stormy Escape: A Vietnamese Woman's Account of Her 1980 Flight Through Cambodia to Thailand. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1997.

Lam, Andrew. Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora. Berkeley, Calif.: Heyday Books, 2005.

Lam Quang Thi. The Twenty-Five Year Century: A South Vietnamese General Remembers the Indochina War to the Fall of Saigon. Denton, Texas: University of North Texas Press, 2001.

Lam, Truong, Buu. Colonialism Experienced: Vietnamese Writings on Colonialism, 1900-1931. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2000.

Le Luu. A Time Far Past Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.

Lu Van Thanh. The Inviting Call of Wandering Souls: Memoir of an ARVN Liaison Officer to the United States Forces in Vietnam Who Was Imprisoned in Communist Re-eduction Camps and Then Escaped. Jefferson, N.C. :McFarland, 1997.

Ly-Qui-Chung, comp. Between Two Fires: The Unheard Voices of Vietnam. New York: Praeger, 1970.

Ma, Van Khang, translated by Phan Thanh Hao and Wayne Karlin. Against the Flood. Willimantic, Conn.: Curbstone, 2000.

McCauley, Anna Kim-Lan. Miles from Home. Wakefield, Mass.: AKLM, 1984.

The Military History Institute of Vietnam, Merle L. Pribbenow, trans. Victory in Vietnam: The Official History of the People's Army of Vietnam, 1954-1975. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, 2002.

Nam Phuong. Red on Gold: A True Story of One Woman's Courage and Will to Survive in War-Torn Vietnam. Clarement,Calif.: Albatross Books, 1991.

Nam, Vickie. Yell-Oh Girls! Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity and Growing Up Asian American. New York: Quill, 2001.

Nguyên, Cao Ky and Marvin J. Wolf. Buddha's Child: My Fight to Save Vietnam. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002.

_____. Twenty Years and Twenty Days. New York: Stein & Day, 1976.

Nguyen Dinh-Hoa. From the City Inside the Red River: A Cultural Memoir of Mid-Century Vietnam. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1998.

Nguyen, Kien. The Unwanted: A Memoir. Boston: Little, Brown, 2001.

Nguyen Long with Harry H. Kendall. After Saigon Fell: Daily Life Under the Vietnamese Communists. Berkeley, Calif.: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1981.

Nguyen Ngoc Ngan and E. E. Richie. The Will of Heaven: A Story of One Vietnamese and the End of His World. New York: Dutton, 1982.

Nguyen Thi Dinh. No Other Road to Take: Memoir of Mrs. Nguyen Thi Dinh. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1976.

Nguyen Thi Tuyet Mai. The Rubber Tree: Memoir of A Vietnam Woman Who was an Anti-French Guerilla, a Publisher, and a Peace Activist. Jefferson, N.C.:Mc Farland, 1994.

Nguyen, Tin. Major General Nguyen Van Hieu, ARVN. iUniverse.com, 2000.

Pham, Andrew X. Catfish & Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam. New York: Farrar, Struas & Giroux, Fall, 1999.

Pham, Andrew X. The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars. New Yor : Harmony Books, 2008.

Pham, Quang X. A Sense of Duty: My Father, My American Journey. New York: Random House, 2005.

Pratt, John Clark. Vietnam Voices: Perspectives on the War Years, 1941-1982. New York: Viking, 1984.

Santoli, Al, ed. To Bear Any Burden: The Vietnam War and Its Aftermath in the Words of Americans and Southeast Asians. New York: Dutton, 1985.

Schafer, John C. Vietnamese Perspectives on the War in Vietnam: An Annotated Bibliography of Works in English. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Council on Southeast Asian Studies, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 1997.

Scott, Joanna C. Indochina's Refugees: Oral Histories from Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1989.

Sheehan, Susan. Ten Vietnamese. New York: Knopf, 1967.

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

Sully, Francoise, comp. We, The Vietnamese: Voices from Vietnam. New York: Praeger, 1971.

Tenhula, John. Voices from Southeast Asia: The Refugee Experience in the United States. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1991.

Townsend, Peter. Girl in the White Ship: A True Story of Escape, Faith, and Survival. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1983.

Tran Tri Vu. Lost Years: My 1,632 Days in Vietnamese Reeducation Camps. Berkeley, Calif.: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 1988.

Tran Van Don. Our Endless War: Inside Vietnam. San Rafael, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1978.

Troung Nhu Tang with David Chanoff and Doan Van Toai. A Vietcong Memoir. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1985.

Turner, Karen G. Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam. New York: Wiley, 1998.

Van Tien Dung. Our Great Spring Victory: An Account of the Liberation of South Vietnam. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1977.

Vo Nguyen Giap. Unforgettable Days. Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1975.

_____. Unforgettable Months and Years. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, Southeast Asia Program, 1975.

Wapner, Kenneth. Teenage Refugees from Vietnam Speak Out. New York: Rosen, 1995.

Weigl, Bruce. The Circle of Hanh: An Autobiography. New York: Grove Press, 2000.

Yarborough, Trin. Surviving Twice: Amerasian Children of the Vietnam War. Dulles, Va.: Brassey's, 2005.

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Bao Ninh. The Sorrow of War. New York: Pantheon, 1995.

Bosse, Malcolm J. The Journey of Tao Kim Nam. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1959.

Butler, Robert Olen. The Deuce. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.

Cao, Lan. Monkey Bridge. New York: Viking, 1997.

Dao Strom. Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Boston: Mariner/Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

Duong Thu Huong. Novel Without a Name. New York: Morrow, 1995.

Ho, An Thai. Behind the Red Mist: Fiction. Willimantic, Conn.: Curbstone, Press, 1998.

Huong, Duong Thu. Memories of a Pure Spring. New York: Hyperion, 2000.

Karlin, Wayne, Ho, Anh Thái. Love after War: Contemporary Fiction from Viet Nam. Willimantic, Conn.: Curbstone Press, 2003.

Karlin, Wayne, Le Minh Khue, and Truong Vu, eds. The Other Side of Heaven: Post War Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers. Willimantic, Conn: Curbstone, 1995.

Khai, Nguyen. Wayne Karlin and Thanh Hao Phan, trans. Past Continuous.
Willimantic, Conn.: Curbstone Press, 2001.

Khue, Le Minh. The Stars, the Earth, the River: Short Fiction by Le Minh Khue. Willimantic, Conn.: Curbstone Press, 1997.

Lê, Thi Diem Thúy. The Gangster We Are All Looking For. New York: Knopf, 2003.

Phan, Aimee. We Should Never Meet. New York: St. Martin's, 2004.

Tran Van Dinh. No Passenger on the River. New York: Vantage, 1965.

_____. Blue Dragon, White Tiger: A Tet Story. Philadelphia: TriAm Press, 1983.

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Clark, Ann Nolan. To Stand Against the Wind. New York: Viking Press, 1978.

Huynh Quang Nhuong. The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.

Gilson, Jamie. Hello, My Name Is Scrambled Eggs. New York: Lothrop, Leet, and Shepard, 1985.

Karl, Terry. Children of the Dragon. San Francisco: People's Press, 1974.

Tran Khan Tuyet. The Little Weaver of Thai-Yen Village. San Francisco: Children's Book Press, 1977.

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Bowen, Kevin, Nguyen Ba Chung, and Bruce Weigl, eds. Mountain River: Vietnamese Poetry from the Wars, 1948-1993. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.

Chagon, Jacquelyn and Don Luce, eds. Of Quiet Courage: Poems from Vietnam. Washington, D.C.: Indochina Mobile Education Project, 1974.

Larson, Wendy Wilder and Tran Thi Nga. Shallow Graves: Two Women and Vietnam. New York: Random House, 1986.

Luce, Don, John C. Schafer, and Jacquelyn Chagnon, eds. We Promise One Another: Poems from an Asian War. Washington, D.C.: Indochina Mobile Education Project, 1971.

Nhat Hanh, Thich. The Cry of Vietnam. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Unicorn Press, 1968.

_____. The Viet Nam: Poems. Greensboro, N.C.: Unicorn Press, 1967.

Nguyen Quan Thieu. The Women Carry River Water. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.

Rottman, Larry. Voices from the Ho Chi Minh Trail: Poetry of America and Vietnam, 1965-1993. Desert Hot Springs, Calif.: Event Horizon Press, 1993.

Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose. New York: Asian American Writers' Workshop, 1998.

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Butler, Robert Olen. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. New York: Henry Holt, 1992.

Distant Stars. Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1976.

The Ivory Comb. South Vietnam: Giai Phong Publishing House, 1967.

The Mountain Trail. Hanoi: Vietnam Women's Union, 1970.

Nhat Hanh, Thich. The Moon Bamboo. Berkeley, Calif.: Parallax Press, 1989.

Tran Vu. Nina McPherson and Phan Huy Duong, trans. The Dragon Hunt: Five Stories New York: Hyperion, 1999.

Chandler, David. Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.

Dith Pran and Kim DePaul. Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997.

Him, Chanrithy. When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge; A Memoir. New York: Norton, 2000.

Kim Ha. Stormy Escape: A Vietnamese Woman's Account of Her 1980 Flight Through Cambodia to Thailand. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1997.

Metzl, Jamie. The Depths of the Sea. New York: St. Martin's, 2004. (novel)

Pin Yathay. Stay Alive, My Son. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000.

Ung, Loung. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers. New York: HarperCollins, 2000.

_____. Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.

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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