The Warriors
Edelman, B (edit). Dear america: letters home
from Vietnam. Norton, 1985.
Eilert, R. For self and country. Pocket
Books. 1983. (Thanks Paul for loaning me this one, ever want it back?
;-)
Mangold. T. The tunnels of cu chi. Berkley
Publishing Group. 1997.
Michel, M. The 11 days of christmas. Encounter Books, 2002.
Palmer, L. Shrapnel in the heart. Vintage, 1988.
Reed, P and Schwarz, T. Kontum Diary. Summit Books, 1996.
Santoli, A.To bear any burden.
Ballantine Books. 1985
Santoli, A. Everything We Had. Random House. 1981.
There are some apparently good novels of the historical-fiction
genere out there but I do not have the combat experience to honestly
recommend them.
Docs and Nurses
Glasser, M. 365 Days, 1986 (Out of Print...see Amazon.com
used)
VanDeVanter, L Home before morning. Beufort Books, 1983.(Out
of Stock but available used at Amazon.com)
The POW/MIA Debate
Jensen-Stevenson, M and Stevenson, W. Kiss the
boys goodbye. Plume Books, 1990.
View from the other side
Ninh, Bao. The
sorrow of war. Riverhead Books, 1993.
One I cannot recommend:
Appy, Christian. Patriots: The Vietnam
war remembered from all sides.
Penguin USA, 2003
(Billed as
a definitive compilation of stories from all sides of the war I
found it heavily weighted with the voices of the North Vietnamese
veterans and U.S. antiwar protesters. The stories of the South Vietnamese,
Korean and Australians who fought and died there are seldom heard
within its pages. Worth a read, but in my opinion heavily biased
in its tone.)