LibGuides: Primary Sources: Vietnam War: Literature

Book Sources: Literature - Vietnam War

After the Noise of Saigon by Walter McDonald
Call Number: PS3563.A2914 A69 1988
ISBN: 0870236016

poetry collection
Aztlán and Viet Nam: Chicano and Chicana Experiences of the War by George Mariscal
Call Number: DS559.8.M39 A95 1999
ISBN: 0520214056

"Showcasing over sixty short stories, poems, speeches, and articles, ... the first anthology of Mexican American writings about the U.S. war in Southeast Asia. "
Going after Cacciato: A Novel by Tim O'Brien
Call Number: PS3565.B75 G6
ISBN: 0440029481
In Country: A Novel by Bobbie Ann Mason
Call Number: PS3563.A7877 I5 1985
ISBN: 0060154691
In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War by Tobias Wolff
Call Number: DS559.5 .W64 1995
ISBN: 0679760237
Meditations in Green by Stephen Wright
Call Number: PS3573.R5433 M4 1983
ISBN: 0684180103
Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann
Call Number: PS3558.E4573 P3 1986
ISBN: 0374228477
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Call Number: PR6013.R44 Q6
Sticks and Bones: A Play in two Acts by David Rabe
Call Number: PS3568.A23 S85 1987
ISBN: 0573615837
To those who have Gone Home Tired by W.D. Ehrhart
Call Number: PS3555.H67 A6 1984
ISBN: 0938410229

New & Selected Poems
Winning Hearts & Minds by Larry Rottmann, Jan Barry, and Basil T. Paquet
Call Number: PS591.V4 R6 1972
ISBN: 0070540756

War Poems by Vietnam Veterans
The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam by Bao Ninh; Phan T. Hao (Translator)
Call Number: PL4378.9.B37 N6513 1996
ISBN: 1573225436

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