 | In Search of Southeast Asia: A Modern History (Revised) by David P. Chandler
Buy new: $27.00 / Used from: $4.78 The places we were.
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 | The Cold War: A New History by John Lewis Gaddis
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $7.00 Put it in context. Vietnam was one chapter of a larger story.
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 | Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow
Buy new: $14.28 / Used from: $4.57 For better or for worse, still the standard work.
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 | Street Without Joy: The French Debacle In Indochina (Stackpole Military History Series) by Bernard B. Fall
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $6.38 French Indochina - from European colony to Cold War battleground.
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 | Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu by Bernard Fall
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $2.90 The classic work on the end of the French colonial adventure - prelude to the American war.
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 | The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.42 America's political leadership and its follies.
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 | The Pentagon Papers by George C Herring
Buy new: $15.07 / Used from: $6.97 Go to the primary sources.
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 | The Rise and Fall of an American Army: U.S. Ground Forces in Vietnam, 1965-1973 by Shelby L. Stanton
Buy used from: $1.14 A fine battlefield history. Makes sense of a murky conflict.
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 | Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $4.99 The leftist take on events, written during the war. Read it as a sign of the times.
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 | Ho Chi Minh: A Life by William J. Duiker
Buy used from: $9.51 The current authoritative source on Uncle Ho.
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 | Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Al Santoli
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.20 The view from ground level. Powerful.
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 | A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
Buy used from: $6.00 A young Marine officer goes in-country. The classic soldier memoir.
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 | We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore
Buy new: $30.36 / Used from: $2.85 Shows how America could win every battle and still lose the war.
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 | How We Won the War by Vo Nguyen Giap
North Vietnam's master strategist explains the communist victory.
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 | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $0.46 Another casualty of 'Nam: a certain kind of idealism.
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 | The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History by Norman Mailer
Buy new: $13.23 / Used from: $7.95 Sublime meets ridiculous on the home front: Mailer marches on the Pentagon.
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 | Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959-1975 (Library of America)
Buy new: $14.36 / Used from: $0.46 Whose side were they on, anyway?
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 | Vietnam War With Walter Cronkite
Buy new: $30.99 / Used from: $17.34 Dan Rather brings the war to your living room - and makes a name for himself.
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 | Sideshow, Revised Edition: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia by William Shawcross
Buy used from: $9.45 Controversial account of the rise of Pol Pot. Was America responsible?
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 | White House Years by Henry Kissinger
Buy used from: $4.75 Ending the war: Kissinger vs. Le Duc Tho.
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 | Tears before the Rain: An Oral History of the Fall of South Vietnam by Larry Engelmann
Buy new: $98.00 / Used from: $0.43 Cut and Run I: Choppers on the roof.
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 | The Pol Pot Regime: Race, Power, and Genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, 1975-79 by Ben Kiernan
Buy new: $16.88 / Used from: $10.95 Cut and Run II: Cambodian aftermath.
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 | On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War by Harry G. Summers
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $7.98 Influential military postmortem of the American involvement.
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 | Vietnam: The Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict by Michael Lind
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.48 A thought-provoking revisionist perspective. But does it convince?
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 | Vietnam - A Television History
Buy new: $79.95 / Used from: $45.00 See the sights and hear the sounds. A remarkably balanced and comprehensive overview of America's Vietnam war.
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