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References and Inspirational works

A collection of books and resources used to compile and write the book Waging Peace In Vietnam: U.S. Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War.


Bibliography

Angers, Trent. The Forgotten Hero of My Lai: The Hugh Thomson Story. Lafayette, Louisiana: Acadian Publishers, 2014.

Appy, Christian. Working Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.

Bica, Camillo, Beyond PTSD: The Moral Casualties of War. Gnosis Press, 2016.

Bica, Camillo, Worthy of Gratitude? Why Veterans May Not Want To Be Thanked For Their "Service" in War. Gnosis Press, 2015.

Boyle, Richard. The Flower of the Dragon: The Breakdown of the U.S. Army in Vietnam . San Francisco: Ramparts Press, 1972.

Chapman, Jessica. Cauldron of Resistance: Ngo Dinh Diem, The United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam. Ithaca, NY; Cornell University Press, 2013.

Citizens Commission of Inquiry, eds. The Dellums Committee hearing on war crimes in Vietnam: An inquiry into command responsibility in Southeast Asia . Vintage Books, 1972.

Cortright, David. Soldiers in Revolt: The American Military Today . New York: Anchor Press, 1975.

Crowell, Joan. Fort Dix Stockade; Our Prison Camp Next Door. New York: Links, 1974.

Duncan, Donald. The New Legions. New York: Random House, 1967.

Fonda, Jane. My Life So Far.New York: Random House, 2005.

Franklin, H. Bruce. Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018.

Gardner, Fred. The Unlawful Concert: An Account of the Presidio Mutiny Case. New York: Viking Press, 1970.

Giffey, David (editor) Long Shadows: Veterans’ Paths to Peace. Madison, Wisconsin: Atwood Publishing, 2006.


Heinl, Robert D., Jr. “The Collapse of the Armed Forces.” Armed Forces Journal 108 (June 7, 1971): 30–38.

Hershberg, James.Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam. Palo Alto, California: Stanford University Press/Wilson Center Press, 2012.

Hunt, David. Vietnam’s Southern Revolution: From Peasant Insurrection to Total War . Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.

Hutto, Sr., Jonathan W. Anti-War Soldier: How to Dissent within the Ranks of the Military. New York: Nation Books, 2008.

Iraq Veterans Against the War and Aaron Glantz. Winter Soldier Iraq and Afghanistan: Eye Witness Accounts of the Occupations. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2008.

Lembke, Jerry. The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam.New York: New York University Press, 1998.

Lepre, George. Fragging. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2011.

Levy, Howard and David Miller. Going to Jail: The Political Prisoner. New York: Grove Press, 1976.

Lewes, James. Protest and Survive: Underground GI Newspapers during the Vietnam War. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003.

Lewis, Penny. Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory . Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 2013.

Levinson, Nan. War Is Not a Game: The New American Soldiers and the Movement They Built. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004.

Logevall, Fredrik. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam. New York: Random House 2012.

Mejia, Camilo. The Road from ar-Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Mejia. New York: The New Press, 2007.

Moser, Richard. The New Winter Soldiers: GI and Veteran Dissent during the Vietnam Era .New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1996.

Musil, Robert K. “The Truth About Deserters,” The Nation, (April 16, 1973), 495-499.

Nguyen, Lien-Hang. Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Olson, Howard C., and R. William Rae. Determination of the Potential for Dissidence in the US Army. McLean, Va.: Research Analysis Corp., 1971.

Parsons, David L. Dangerous Grounds: Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017.

Prados, John. The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press. 2009.

Rinaldi, Matthew. “The Olive-Drab Rebels: Military Organizing during the Vietnam Era,” Radical America 8,(May–June 1974).

Seidman, Derek. “Paper Soldiers: The Ally and the GI Underground Press during the Vietnam War,” in Protest on the Page: Essays on Print and the Culture of Dissent since 1865. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2015: 183-202.

Seidman, Derek. “Vietnam and the Soldiers Revolt: The Politics of a Forgotten History,” Monthly Review Vol 68, No. 2 (June 2016).

Sherwood, Darrell. Black Sailor, White Navy: Racial Unrest in the Fleet During the Vietnam War Era . New York: New York University Press, 2007.

Short, William and Willa Seidenberg. A Matter of Conscience: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War. Andover: Addison Gallery of American Art, 1992.

Strassfeld, Robert N. “Vietnam War on Trial: The Court-Martial of Dr. Howard B. Levy” 1994, Case Western University Law School, Faculty Publications. 551. https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/faculty_publications/551

Terry, Wallace, ed. Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War.New York: Random House, 1984.

Uhl, Michael. Vietnam Awakening: My Journey from Combat to the Citizens’ Commission of Inquiry on U.S. War Crimes in Vietnam. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.

Young, Marilyn B.The Vietnam Wars 1945-1990. New York, HarperCollins, 1991.

Additional Resources

Appy, Christian. Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides. New York: Viking, 2003.

Bailey, Beth. America’s Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.

Barnes, Peter. Pawns: The Plight of the Citizen-Soldier.New York: Knopf, 1972.

Baskir, Lawrence M. and William Strauss. Chance and Circumstance: The Draft, the War, and the Vietnam Generation . New York: Knopf, 1978.

Black, Samuel W. Soul Soldiers: African Americans and the Vietnam Era. Pittsburgh, PA: Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center in association with the Smithsonian Institution, 2006.

Buzzanco, Robert. Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era .Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Cameron, Juan. “Our Gravest Military Problem Is Manpower.” Fortune (April 1971): 60–63

Cameron, Juan. “The Armed Forces’ Reluctant Retrenchment.” Fortune (November 1970): 68.

Chapman, Jessica. Cauldron of Resistance: Ngo Dinh Diem, The United States, and 1950s Southern Vietnam. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013.

Cincinnatus. Self-Destruction: The Disintegration and Decay of the United States Army during the Vietnam Era. New York: W.W. Norton, 1981.

Cortright, David and Max Watts. Left Face: Soldier Unions and Resistance Movements in Modern Armies . New York: Greenwood Press, 1991.

De Nike, Howard. Mission (Un)Essential: Contemplations of a Civilian Court Lawyer in Military Court . Berlin and San Francisco: Harald Kater Publishers, 2002.

Foley, Michael S. Confronting the War Machine: Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War .Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Franklin, H. Bruce. Vietnam and Other American Fantasies. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.

Gabriel, Richard A., and Paul L. Savage. Crisis in Command: Mismanagement in the Army. New York: Hill and Wang, 1978.

Halstead, Fred. GIs Speak Out against the War: The Case of the Ft. Jackson 8.New York: Pathfinder Press, 1970.

Heath, G. Louis, ed. Mutiny Does Not Happen Lightly: The Literature of American Resistance to the Vietnam War .Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1976.

Helmer, John. Bringing the War Home: The American Soldier in Vietnam and After .New York: Macmillan, 1974.

Hershberg, James. Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press/Wilson Center Press, 2012.

Hunt, Andrew E. The Turning: A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War.New York: New York University Press, 1999.

Hunt, David. Vietnam’s Southern Revolution: From Peasant Insurrection to Total War . Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.

Jamail, Dahr. The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2009.

Kirk, Donald. “Who Wants to Be the Last American Killed in Vietnam?” New York TimesMagazine, (September 19, 1971).

Lewis, Penny. Hardhats, Hippies, and Hawks: The Vietnam Antiwar Movement as Myth and Memory . Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 2013.

Lifton, Robert Jay. Home from the War: Vietnam Veterans; Neither Victims nor Executioners .New York: Basic Books, 1973.

Linden, Eugene. “The Demoralization of an Army; Fragging and Other Withdrawal Symptoms.” Newsweek (October 25, 1971): 67-68.

Logevall, Fredrik. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam. New York: Random House 2012.

Nguyen, Lien-Hang. Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012.

Nicosia, Gerald. Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans’ Movement.New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001.

Prados, John. The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 2009.

Sherrill, Robert. Military Justice Is to Justice as Military Music Is to Music.New York: Harper and Row, 1970.

Small, Melvin, and William D Hoover, eds. Give Peace a Chance: Exploring the VietnamAntiwar Movement .Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1992.

Smith, George E. P.O.W. Two Years with the Vietcong. San Francisco: Ramparts Press, 1971.

Stacewicz, Richard. Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. New York: Twayne, 1997.

Stapp, Andy. Up Against the Brass. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970.

Uhl, Michael. “The Tip of the Iceberg: My Lai Fifty Years On.” CounterPunch, (March 16, 2018).

Uhl, Michael and Tod Ensign. GI Guinea Pigs: How the Pentagon Exposed Our Troops to Dangers More Deadly Than War . New York: Playboy Press, 1980.

Westheider, James E. Brothers in Arms: The African American Experience in Vietnam .Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008.

Young, Marilyn B. The Vietnam Wars 1945–1990. New York, HarperCollins, 1991.

Zeiger, David. History of the Oleo Strut Coffeehouse, 1968–1972. Sir! No Sir! Digital Archive.

Zeiger, David, dir. Sir! No Sir! Los Angeles, CA: Displaced Films, 2005.

Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States: 1492–Present.New York: HarperCollins, 1980.


Vietnam Poetry, Selected Works

Anderson, Doug. The Moon Reflected Fire. Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 1994.

Balaban, John. After Our War. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1974.

Balaban, John. Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New & Selected Poems.Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon, 1997.

Barry, Jan. Earth Songs: New & Selected Poems. Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, Inc., 2003.

Barry, Jan, Basil Paquet, and Larry Rottmann, eds. Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans. New York: 1st Casualty Press, 1972.

Barry, Jan, and W. D. Ehrhart, eds. Demilitarized Zones: Veterans After Vietnam. Perkasie, PA: East River Anthology, 1976.

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

Brown, D. F. Returning Fire. San Francisco, CA: San Francisco State University, 1984.

Brown, D.F. Ghost of a Person Passing in Front of the Flag. Houston, TX: Bloomsday, 2018.

Casey, Michael. Obscenities. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1972.

Coleman, Horace.Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Kansas City, MO: BkMk Press, 1977.

Connolly, David V. Lost in America. Silver Spring, MD: Viet Nam Generation/Burning Cities, 1994.

Ehrhart, W. D. Beautiful Wreckage: New & Selected Poems. Easthampton, MA: Adastra Press, 1999.

Ehrhart, W. D., ed. Carrying the Darkness: The Poetry of the Vietnam War. Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 1989.

Ehrhart, W.D., ed. Unaccustomed Mercy: Soldier-Poets of the Vietnam War. Lubbock, TX:Texas Tech University Press, 1989.

Floyd, Bryan Alex. The Long War Dead. Sag Harbor, NY: The Permanent Press, 1983.

Komunyakaa, Yusef. Dien Cai Dau. Middletowon, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1988.

McCarthy, Gerald. War Story. Berkeley, CA: The Crossing Press, 1977.

McDonald, Walter. Caliban in Blue. Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, 1976.

Mahoney, Philip, ed. From Both Sides Now: The Poetry of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath. New York: Scribner, 1998.

Ritterbusch, Dale. Lessons Learned. Silver Spring, MD: Viet Nam Generation/Burning Cities, 1995.

Ritterbusch, Dale. Far from the Temple of Heaven. Windsor, ONT: Black Moss Press, 2006.

Steptoe, Lamont B. Uncle’s South China Sea Blue Nightmare. Alexandria, VA: Plan B Press, 1995.

Van Devanter, Lynda, and Joan Furey, eds. Visions of War, Dreams of Peace: Writings of Women in the Vietnam War . New York: Warner Books, 1991.

Weigl, Bruce. Song of Napalm. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991.