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War in General:

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Fulbright, J. William (James William), 1905-. The arrogance of power. New York: Vintage Books, [1967, c1966]. Critique of American foreign policy that prioritized anti-communism over sympathy for nationalism, and a plea to adjust our priorities to accommodate the possibility of a communist influenced nationalist movement in Vietnam.

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Keegan, John, 1934-. War and our world. 1st Vintage Books ed. New York : Vintage Books, 2001. Drawing on a lifetime of study and writing, the author delves into the history of war, the character of a professional soldier, the diverse views of anthropologists on the origin of social violence, the advent of high-tech warfare, and other relevant issues.

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Kaplan, Robert D., 1952-. Warrior politics : why leadership demands a pagan ethos. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2002. Kaplan conducts a tour through the works of Machiavelli, Malthus and Hobbes, to support his advocacy of foreign policy based on the morality of results rather than good intentions.

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Kagan, Donald. On the origins of war and the preservation of peace. New York: Doubleday, 1995. Uncovers common threads that connect the ancient confrontations between Athens and Sparta and between Rome and Carthage with the two world wars of the 20th century and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Tuchman, Barbara. The march of folly: from Troy to Vietnam. 1st ed. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1984. Traces and explores the recurring pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.

Cold War and Foreign Policy, 1945-1989:

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Levine, Robert M. Secret missions to Cuba : Fidel Castro, Bernardo Benes, and Cuban Miami. 1st ed. New York :Palgrave, 2001. A detailed understanding of the politics and personalities of the Cuban exile in Miami and of hothey affected events from the early years of the exile through the dramas of Elian Gonzalez during the 2000 presidential election.

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Fontaine, André, 1921-. History of the Cold War. [1st American ed.]. New York: Pantheon Books, [1968-69]. 1. From the October Revolution to the Korean War, 1917-1950, translated by D. D. Paige.--2. From the Korean War to the present, translated by R. Bruce.

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McNamara, Robert S., 1916-. Wilson's ghost : reducing the risk of conflict, killing, and catastrophe in the 21st century. 1st ed. New York : Public Affairs, c2001. Former Secretary of Defense McNamara takes the ideas and idealism of Woodrow Wilson, and sets forth a moral and multilateral formula for achieving peace in the world.

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Shiraev, Eric, 1960-. Anti-Americanism in Russia : from Stalin to Putin. 1st ed. New York : Palgrave, 2000. Shiraev and Zubok analyze growing anti-Americanism in Russia, in light of further steps towards European integration, NATO expansion, and of future regional conflicts.

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Rice, Earle. The Cold War : collapse of communism. San Diego : Lucent Books, c2000. Presents a history of the tense, often combative, relations between Soviet Russia and the United States from the end of World War II to the fall of communism in 1989.

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Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971. Present at the creation: my years in the State Department. [1st ed.]. New York: Norton, [1969]. Detailed account of Acheson's diplomatic career, including the origins of the cold war, the drawing of lines among the superpowers in Europe and the agreement to form NATO, and the conflict in Korea.

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Halberstam, David. War in a time of peace : Bush, Clinton, and the generals. New York : Scribner, c2001. Examines how the lessons of Vietnam have influenced American foreign policy in the post-Cold War era.

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Kennan, George Frost, 1904-. American diplomacy, 1900-1950. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, [1951]. Former presidential advisor appraises America’s foreign relations during the first half of the twentieth century, and concludes that in the future our foreign policy should be based on the preservation of stability among the superpowers.

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Lederer, William J., 1912-. A nation of sheep. [1st ed.]. New York: Norton, [1961]. Discusses the effects of the apathy and ignorance of the American people on United States foreign policy, relations with other nations, and use of foreign aid funds.

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Mead, Walter Russell. Special providence : American foreign policy and how it changed the wowrld. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Mead offers a different way of looking at American foreign policy, one that moves far beyond the conventional wisdom of 'realists vs. idealists.' His insights link the grand sweep of American history to our present world situation.

327.73 R.8 1-c Rozwenc, Edwin Charles, 1915- Containment and the origins of the cold war. Boston: Heath, [1967].

327.73 W.72-c Winks, Robin W. The cold war from Yalta to Cuba. New York: Macmillan, [1964].

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The Superpowers: a new detente: opposing viewpoints. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, c1989. Presents opposing viewpoints on the changes in the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union in the era of Glasnost.

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Beschloss, Michael R. At the highest levels: the inside story of the end of the cold war. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, c1993. Examination of the vital transactions George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev made and concealed from the world.

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LaFeber, Walter. America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1996. 8th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, c1997. Focuses on U.S./Soviet diplomacy to explain the causes and consequences of the Cold War.

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Schulzinger, Robert D., 1945-. A time for war : the United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997. Schulzinger narrates the complicated saga of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, demostrating that at every point where the choice was between sending more aid and letting the South fend for itself, American leaders sent more aid because the fallout of the South going Communist was unbearable in the cold war context.

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The Cold War. Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001. v. 1. 1918-1963 -- v. 2. 1964-1992. The articles in this two-volume collection, all from the New York Times, which is generally regarded as the newspaper of record for the United States, can be considered primary historical documents.

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History in dispute. Detroit: St. James Press, c2000-. v. 1. The Cold War: first series / edited by Benjamin Frankel -- v. 6. The Cold War: second series / Edited by Dennis E. Showalter and Paul DuQuenoy. Takes the most contentious issues in cold war studies and presents them as a series of scholarly debates, offering two persuasive essays that argue each side of the question under discussion.

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Inglis, Fred. The cruel peace: everyday life and the Cold War. [New York, N.Y.] Basic Books, c1991. Looks at the popular culture of the time, including films, novels, plays, poetry, television and political events, which helped reinforce Cold War stereotypes.

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Isaacs, Jeremy, 1932-. Cold war: an illustrated history, 1945-1991. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., c1998. Companion volume to the CNN documentary series, takes on the cold war from the post-WWII rise of the Iron Curtain to the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet government in the early '90s.

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Lukacs, John, 1924-. A new history of the cold war. 3d ed., expanded. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1966. Examines the social, historical, national and ideological factors that have shaped relations between America and Russia, and its impact on Europe.

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Marwick, Arthur, 1936-. The sixties: cultural revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c1958-c1974. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Argues that the 1960’s ushered in nothing less than a cultural revolution--one that raged most clearly in the United States, Britain, France, and Italy-- and saw great leaps forward in the arts, in civil rights, and in many other areas of society and politics, though the decade also left deep divisions still felt today.

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White, Theodore Harold, 1915-. Fire in the ashes: Europe in mid-century. New York: Sloane, 1953. First hand account of the success of the Marshall Plan in postwar Europe, and the nature of Russia’s challenge to the West.

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Garton Ash, Timothy. History of the present: essays, sketches, and dispatches from Europe in the 1990s. 1st U. S. ed. New York: Random House, c1999. A collection of essays, sketches, and dispatches with primary focus on how the countries of central and eastern Europe have restructured in the face of the collapse of their Communist regimes.

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Parrish, Thomas (Thomas D.). Berlin in the balance, 1945-1949: the blockade, the airlift, the first major battle of the Cold War. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, c1998. Describes the many facets of national and international politics surrounding the Berlin airlift, including the incredible skills and courage of the pilots, and the equally incredible organization and ground support required to make it work.

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Chen, Jian, 1952-. Mao's China and the Cold War. Chapel Hill :University of North Carolina Press, c2001. A study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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Sherrow, Victoria. Cuba. Brookfield, Conn. : Twenty-First Century Books, c2001. Covers Cuba's history and culture, and gives a broad picture of what Cuba is like for the people who live there.

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Weisbrot, Robert. Maximum danger : Kennedy, the missiles, and the crisis of American confidence. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001. Weisbrot challenges the polarized portraits often presented of JFK's handling of the Cuban missile crisis--he is seen as either a "profile in courage" or guilty of reckless machismo--by establishing the political and ideological context within which Kennedy and his advisors operated.

Student Protest:

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Schultz, Bud. The price of dissent : testimonies to political repression in America. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2001. Drawn from three of the most significant social movements of our time--the labor, Black freedom, and antiwar movements--these engrossing interviews bring to life the experiences of Americans who acted upon their beliefs despite the price they paid for their dissent. In doing so, they--and the movements they were part of--helped shape the political and social landscape of the United States from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century.

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Farish, Leah. Tinker v. Des Moines: student protest. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, c1997. Considers the landmark case that dealt with the rights of students to wear arm bands to protest U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.

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Lynd, Alice. We won't go: personal accounts of war objectors. Boston: Beacon Press, [1968]. A collection of accounts by people who were confronted by the dilemma of conscience posed by military participation in Vietnam. Also includes a copy of the application for conscience objector status.

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Heineman, Kenneth J., 1962-. Put your bodies upon the wheels : student revolt in the 1960s. Chicago : I.R. Dee, c2001. Historian Heineman argues that the student protest movement divided the nation by pitting one social class against another, and left a legacy of moral relativism and civic apathy.

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Shay, Jonathan. Achilles in Vietnam: combat trauma and the undoing of character. 1st Touchstone ed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995, 1994. Argues that the experiences and behavior of traumatized Vietnam veterans echo those of Achilles and the soldiers in Homer's Iliad.

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Hagan, John, 1946-. Northern passage : American Vietnam War resisters in Canada. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2001. An examination of American draft resisters who emigrated to Canada rather than serve in the U.S. armed forces.

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Ayers, Bill. Fugitive days : a memoir. Boston : Beacon Press, c2001. Ayers describes his 10 years living on the run, stealing explosives, planting bombs, and hiding from the law when disillusioned with America and the Viet Nam War.

War and Nationalism in the Balkans:

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Glenny, Misha, The Balkans: nationalism, war and the great powers, 1804-1999. New york,: Viking, 1999. Demonstrates how throughout history great-power interference in the region has been catastrophic for the peoples of the Balkans and how so-called ethnic hatreds have often been intensified by misguided diplomats in distant capitals, creating states, allocating populations, and redrawing borders with deadly results.

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Donia, Robert J. Bosnia and Herzegovina: a tradition betrayed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. Interprets the region's complex religious history and its people's use of religion as a 'code' of identity rather than as a source of conflict.

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Rieff, David. Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the failure of the West. New York: Simon & Schuster, c1995. Describes the heroic struggles of humanitarian aid workers in war-torn Bosnia while the American, English, and French governments refused to intervene to stop the war.

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Owen, David. Balkan odyssey. Harcourt Brace: New York, 1995. A look at events in the Balkans since the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, examining failed international peace efforts, condemning U.S. Balkan policies, and offering a personal chronicle of efforts to end the civil war.

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Judah, Tim, 1962-. Kosovo: war and revenge. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. First hand account of the Balkan conflagration, looking at the historical background, the immediate run-up to the war, the controversy of the NATO bombing, the background to the cease-fire and the NATO peace-keeping operation.

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Reger, James P. The rebuilding of Bosnia. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, c1997. Discusses the origins of the conflict in Bosnia and international efforts made to bring peace to the area.

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Tanovi’c-Miller, Naza, 1938-. Testimony of a Bosnian. 1st ed. College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2001. A synthesis of deeply felt cruelties of the war; painfully recognized indifference of the big powers toward the suffering of innocent civilians and full comprehension of the historical background of the events that brought Bosnia and its peoples to the edge of disappearance.

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Daalder, Ivo H. Winning ugly: NATO's war to save Kosovo. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, c2000. Explore the causes, conduct, and consequences of the Kosovo conflict, and how in the future coercive diplomacy and the threat of force can best be managed within NATO to achieve limited political objectives.

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Fromkin, David. Kosovo crossing: American ideals meet reality on the Balkan battlefields. New York: Free Press, 1999. Examines the uses and the limits of America's power to shape the world and its power to impose its values on others in the world today, and the new paths that American leaders must explore to advance American values in the future.

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Malcolm, Noel. Kosovo: a short history. New York: New York University Press, 1998. An overview of Kosovo's long-standing cultural divisions, the author suggests that the conflict between Serbs and Albanians is less about religion and bloodlines, and more about differing conceptions of national origins and history.

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McAllester, Matthew, 1969-. Beyond the mountains of the damned : the war inside Kosovo. New York : New York University Press, c2002. Reporters weren't allowed into Kosovo during the war without the permission of the Yugoslavian government but Matthew McAllester went anyway. Here he tells the story of Pec, Kosovo's most destroyed city and the site of the earliest and worst atrocities of the war, through the lives of two men--one Serb and one Kosovar.

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Clark, Arthur L. Bosnia: what every American should know. Berkley ed. New York: Berkley Books, 1996. Using historical and government documents, provides an overview of what the US and NATO should know about the people of the region and their history, if we are to respond intelligently to the difficulties that lie ahead.

Korean War:

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Shephard, Ben, 1948-. A war of nerves : soldiers and psychiatrists in the twentieth century. Cambridge, MA :

Harvard University Press, 2001. Chronicles military psychiatry in the 20th century to treat or

prevent the psychological breakdown of service members exposed to the horrors of war.

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Berger, Carl. The Korea knot: a military-political history. Rev. ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, [1965, c1964].

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Ballenger, Lee. The final crucible : U.S. Marines in Korea, Vol.II, 1953. Washington, D.C. : Brassey's, c2001. Chronicles the activities of the U.S. Marine Corps during the little-known last six months of combat in Korea.

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Catchpole, Brian. The Korean War 1950-53. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., 2000. Overview of the Korean conflict, from the initial division of Korea into occupation zones that in due course became separate countries, to the postwar consequences for Korea, the U.S., Japan, and Britain.

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Hanley, Charles J. The bridge at No Gun Ri : a hidden nightmare from the Korean War. 1st ed. New York : Henry Holt, 2001. The story of how U.S. troops opened fire on a group of 400 South Korean refugees huddled near a railroad bridge during the Korean War.

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Hickey, Michael, 1929-. The Korean War: the West confronts communism. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2000. Examines the conflict from the point of view of America's United Nations allies, an international force comprising contingents from Turkey, England, India, Australia, Canada, Belgium, and Norway, among other countries.

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Hoffman, Jon T., 1955-. Chesty : the story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC. 1st ed. New York : Random House, c2001. General Lewis B. Puller's 37-year career included engagements with bandits in Haiti, rebels in Nicaragua, Japanese Imperial forces on Guadalcanal, New Britain, and Peliliu, and North Korean and Red Chinese armies in Korea.

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Lech, Raymond B., 1940-. Broken soldiers. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2000. The author indicts the U.S. military for sending troops into the Korean War unprepared for capture and the horrific mind-bending techniques of the at the end of the conflict.

951.904 R.37-i Rice, Earle. The Inchon invasion. San Diego: Lucent Books, c1996.

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Whelan, Richard. Drawing the line: the Korean War, 1950-1953. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, c1990. Reconstructs the political climate, events, personalities, and maneuverings that shaped the conflict.

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Fehrenbach, T. R. This kind of war: a study in unpreparedness. New York: Galt, Ont.: Macmillan; Collier-Macmillan Canada, 1963. History of the conflict between the ill-trained and poorly equipped UN troops and the North Korean and Chinese communist invaders, along with the personal narratives of the small-unit commanders and their troops.

951.9042 H.53-k Higgins, Trumbull. Korea and the fall of MacArthur: a précis in limited war. New York: Oxford University Press, 1960.

951.9042 L.49-c Leckie, Robert. Conflict: the history of the Korean War, 1950-53. New York: Putnam, [1962].

951.9042 Sh.4-h Sheldon, Walter J. Hell or high water: MacArthur's landing at Inchon. New York: Macmillan, [1968].

951.9042 St.6-s Stokesbury, James L. A short history of the Korean War. New York: Quill, [1990].

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Tomedi, Rudy, 1951-. No bugles, no drums: an oral history of the Korean War. New York: Wiley, C1993. Providing just enough background information to keep the big picture in perspective, freelance journalist Tomedi uses the reminiscences over one hundred veterans to chronicle the war.

Persian Gulf War:

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Walker, Greg. At the hurricane's eye : U.S. Special Forces from Vietnam to Desert Storm. 1st ed. New York : Ivy Books, c1994. Looks at the Special Operations Forces' growth since Vietnam, providing information and eyewitness accounts of such events as their raid on Panama and operations during the war in the Persian Gulf.

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Beckwith, Charlie A. Delta Force. New York : Avon Books, 2000, c1983. The only insider's account ever written on America's most powerful weapon in the war against terrorism: Delta Force.

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Iraq. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1991. An anthology of articles debating issues surrounding the Persian Gulf War, including its effects on the United States and the Middle East, the justification of military action, the accuracy of the media coverage, and lessons learned from the war.

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Nardo, Don, 1947-. The Persian Gulf War. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, c1991. An account of the war between the UN allies and Iraq, from Saddam's military buildup to the cease-fire.

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Allen, Thomas B. War in the Gulf. 1st ed. Atlanta: Kansas City, Mo.: Turner Pub.; Andrews & McMeel, c199 1. A chronicle of the Gulf War with full color photographs, maps, illustrations, and graphics.

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Hiro, Dilip. Neighbors, not friends : Iraq and Iran after the Gulf wars. London ; New York : Routledge, 2001. A veteran journalist and leading commentator on the Middle East covers developments in Iraq and Iran since the Gulf War. He combines firsthand information with a keen sense of political knowledge of the region to give us an informed, objective, and up-to-date analysis of political developments in two key countries in the Persian Gulf.

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Schwartz, Richard Alan, 1951-. Encyclopedia of the Persian Gulf War. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., c1998. Reference work containing 110 entries that deal with persons, weapons, and issues of the war, followed by a 28-page chronology that covers events from 1958 through 1991.

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Yetiv, Steven A. The Persian Gulf crisis. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997. Provides a reference guide to the war as well as seven essays analyzing a variety of aspectsof the crisis and its consequences.

Afghanistan/Central Asia

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Kux, Dennis, 1931-. The United States and Pakistan, 1947-2000 : disenchanted allies. Washington, D.C. : Baltimore : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Johns Hopkins University Press, c2001. U.S.-Pakistan relations have been extraordinarily volatile. An intimate partnership prevailed in the Eisenhower, Nixon, and Reagan years, and friction during the Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter presidencies. Since the Cold War ended, the partnership has shriveled. The blunt talking to delivered by President Clinton to Pakistan's military dictator during Clinton's March 25, 2000, stopover in Pakistan highlighted U.S.-Pakistani differences. But the Clinton visit also underscored important U.S. interests in Pakistan.

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Kinzer, Stephen. Crescent and star : Turkey between two worlds. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. Kinzer, the former New York Times Istanbul bureau chief, gives a concise introduction to Turkey: Kemal Ataterk's post-WWI establishment of the modern secular Turkish state; the odd makeup of contemporary society, in which the military enforces Ataterk's reforms; Islamic fundamentalism, frictions regarding the large Kurdish minority and the lack of democratic freedoms.

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Cooley, John K., 1927-. Unholy wars : Afghanistan, America and international terrorism. New ed., 2nd ed. London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2000. This completely revised edition examines the new terrorist conspiracy network uncovered in the US and Canada, linked to Bin Laden since December 1999. It also covers the many important events in Pakistan since the military coup of October 1999 and the impact of this on Indo-Pakistani relations.

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Griffin, Michael. Reaping the whirlwind : the Taliban movement in Afghanistan. London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2001. The author approaches recent Afghan history through local and international news reports in an effort to understand who the Taliban are and how they see their role in Afghanistan and in the Islamic world.

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Rashid, Ahmed. Taliban : militant Islam, oil, and fundamentalism in Central Asia. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2000. Explains the Taliban's rise to power, its impact on Afghanistan and the region, its role in oil and gas company decisions, and the effects of changing American attitudes toward the Taliban.

Vietnam War:

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Beckett, I. F. W. (Ian Frederick William). Encyclopedia of guerilla warfare. New York : Facts on File, 2001.

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Schuck, Peter H. Agent Orange on trial : mass toxic disasters in the courts. Enl. ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987. Agent Orange, a defoliant contaminated by the highly toxic dioxin, has stirred public interest on many levels. Schuck tells the story of the class action suit brought by thousands of Vietnam veterans against the chemical companies that manufactured the herbicide.

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Wilcox, Fred. Waiting for an army to die : the tragedy of Agent Orange. Cabin John, MD : Seven Locks Press, c1989.

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Allen, George W., 1926-. None so blind : a personal account of the intelligence failure in Vietnam. Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2001. The author argues that in their frantic search for victory over communism,US policymakers ignored professional experts at home and in Indochina who offered opinions and information contrary to what the White House wanted to hear.

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Baker, Mark, 1950-. Nam : the Vietnam war in the words of the men and women who fought there. New York : Morrow, 1981. These firsthand interviews with numerous unnamed military personnel who served in the war give frightening insights into the continuing long-range effects of the Vietnam experience upon those who were the most intimately involved.

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The Vietnam war: opposing viewpoints. St. Paul, Minn.: Greenhaven Press, c1984. Readings and discussion questions present conflicting points of view concerning American involvement in Vietnam.

959.704 B.81-v Brown, Robert McAfee, 1920-. Vietnam: crisis of conscience. New York: Association Press, [1967].

959.704 B.89-v Burchett, Wilfred G., 1911-. Vietnam North. [1st ed.]. New York: International Publishers, [1966].

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Caputo, Philip. A rumor of war. New York: Ballantine Books, 1994, c1977. Grunt's-eye-view of the American experience in Vietnam.

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Flags into battle. Boston, MA: Boston Pub. Co., c1987. Uses official records and interviews to tell the history of the American units stationed in Vietnam from 1954 to 1975.

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Vietnam: anthology and guide to a television history. 1st ed. New York: Knopf, c1983. Nearly 150 documents provide numerous views on issues and events of the Vietnam War. Chapters correspond to the PBS tele-course.

959.704 C.78-1 Cooper, Chester L. The lost crusade: America in Vietnam. New York: Dodd, Mead, [1970].

959.704 C.81-b Corson, William R. The betrayal. [1st ed.] New York: W. W. Norton, [1968].

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Davis, James Kirkpatrick. Assault on the left: the FBI and the sixties antiwar movement. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997. With the rise of the antiwar movement in the 1960s, the FBI embarked on their elaborate COINTELPRO operation, which included infiltrating leftist organizations with paid informants, and targeting prominent dissidents with smear campaigns.

959.704 D.74-a Dougan, Clark. The American experience in Vietnam. [1st ed.]. New York: Boston: W.W. Norton; Boston Pub. Co., [1988].

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Dougan, Clark. Nineteen sixty-eight. Boston, MA: Boston Pub. Co., 1983. Details the events of that pivotal year--the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, the battle of Hue, and the presidential election of 1968.

959.704 D.77-a Doyle, Edward, 1949-. America takes over. Boston, MA: Boston Pub. Co., c1982.

959.704 D.79-a Draper, Theodore, 1912-. Abuse of power. New York: Viking Press, [1967].

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Donahue, James C., 1942-. Blackjack-33 with special forces in the Viet Cong forbidden zone. 1st ed. New York : IvyBooks, 1999. In Vietnam, Mobile Guerrilla Force was the only American unit that truly carried out guerrilla-style hit-and-run military operations. This group of men roamed for weeks at a time through steamy jungle destroying base camps, ambushing enemy forces, and gathering the intelligence Saigon desperately needed.

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Duiker, William J., 1932-. Ho Chi Minh. 1st ed. New York: Hyperion, c2000. Epic story of the father of modern Vietnam, from his early years of poverty and rebellion, his wild days as an expatriate in the United States, in France, and in the Soviet Union, his interaction with world leaders ranging from Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson to Stalin and Mao Zedong, and his ultimate commitment to the success of the Vietnamese revolution and the reunification of his country under Communist rule.

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Ebert, James R., 1955-. A life in a year: the American infantryman in Vietnam, 1965-1972. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, c1993. Drawing on the interview-transcripts over 40 soldiers, focuses completely on the life of the "grunt" (Army and Marine riflemen) in Vietnam--from raw recruit to seasoned vet—first hand accounts from the early days of 1965 to the days of retreat in 1972.

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Edwards, Fred L., 1932-. The bridges of Vietnam: from the journals of U.S. Marine intelligence officer. Denton, Tex.: University of North Texas Press, c2000. Built around Fred Edward's journals during his first tour in Vietnam in 1966-67, describes the travails of combat soldiers fighting a war that, with hindsight, can be seen as futile.

959.704 El.5-p Ellsberg, Daniel. Papers on the war. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1972].

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Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: a political, social, and military history. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c1998. v. 1. A-M -- v. 2. N-Z -- v. 3. Documents. This encyclopedia is unique for its comprehensive coverage of the military, social, and political aspects of the Vietnam War.

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Fall, Bernard B., 1926-1967. Last reflections on a war. [1st ed.]. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1967. Published shortly after Dr. Fall's death from a booby trap in northern South Vietnam, includes an excellent outline of Vietnamese history, a discussion of the basic issues of the war, and an emotive picture of Vietnam.

959.704 F.76-i The Indochinese peoples will win. Hanoi: Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1970.

959.704 F.76-t. Third Congress of the Viet Nam Fatherland Front (documents). Hanoi: Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1972.

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Gioglio, Gerald R. Days of decision: an oral history of conscientious objectors in the military during the Vietnam War. Trenton, N.J.: Broken Rifle Press, 1989. Presents a unique view of the Vietnam era--personal vignettes from 24 ‘antiwar’ soldiers who stood up for what they believed in and persevered in the face of hostility and harassment.

959.704 H.32-1 Hayden, Tom. The love of possession is a disease with them. [1st ed.]. Chicago: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1972].

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Hayes, Roger S. On point: a rifleman's year in the boonies: Vietnam, 1967-1968. Novato, CA: Presido Press, 2000. Describes the world of a combat infantryman and details of life in a platoon.

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Hagan, John, 1946-. Northern passage : American Vietnam War resisters in Canada. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2001. An examination of American draft resisters who emigrated to Canada rather than serve in the U.S. armed forces.

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Hellmann, John, 1948-. American myth and the legacy of Vietnam. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.

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Hendrickson, Paul. The living and the dead: Robert McNamara and five lives of a lost war. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. An in-depth survey that uses Robert McNamara's decision-making process as a foundation for considering wartime decisions and how they altered the lives of five others: a wounded Marine, an Army nurse, a Vietnamese refugee, a Quaker who burned himself to death to protest the war, and an enraged artist who tried to kill the man he saw as the war's architect.

959.704 H.41-s Herbert, Anthony. Soldier. [1st ed.]. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1973].

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Herring, George C., 1936-. America's longest war: the United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975. New York: Knopf, c1979. Analyzes the ultimate failure of the war, and the impact of the war on US foreign policy.

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Herr, Michael. Dispatches. 1st Vintage International ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1991. Journalist captures the feel of the war and how it differed from any theater of combat ever fought, as well as the flavor of the times and the people who were there.

959.704 H.46-v Hess, Gary R. Vietnam and the United States: origins and legacy of war. Rev. ed. New York: London: Twayne Publishers; Prentice Hall International, c1998.

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Hillstrom, Kevin, 1963-. Vietnam War: primary sources. Detroit, MI: UXL, 2001. Combines history from the colonial period, U.S. involvement, and the war years, and continues through the reestablishment of diplomacy and trade in recent years.

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Kaiser, David E., 1947-. American tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the origins of the Vietnam War. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2000. Attempts to shift a significant share of the responsibility for the Vietnam War to those military and foreign-policy specialists in the Eisenhower administration who believed that Communist 'aggression' has to be resisted everywhere at all times.

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Kallen, Stuart A., 1955-. The home front: Americans protest the war. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, c2001. Divided into five chronological chapters that discuss such topics as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, LBJ's escalation of the war, campus protests, teach-ins, marches, draft-card burnings, the My Lai massacre, the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Woodstock, the Kent State shootings, the draft lottery, and the Pentagon Papers.

959.704 K. 12-1 Kahin, George McTurnan. Intervention: how America became involved in Vietnam. 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1986.

959.704 K. 12-u Kahin, George McTurnan. The United States in Vietnam,. Rev. ed. New York: Dial Press, 1967.

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Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: a history. 2nd rev. and updated ed. New York: Penguin Books, 1997. A look at both sides of the Vietnam War through a collection of personal narratives from diplomats, military commanders, high government officials, journalists, nurses and soldiers, and delves into the political events in the United States and elsewhere that originally caused the war and brought it to an end.

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Langguth, A. J., 1933-. Our Vietnam: the war, 1954-1975. New York: Simon & Schuster, c2000. Reinforced by newly released documents and the interviews, a history of the Vietnam War from both the American and Communist perspectives, and the dynamics that went on from the jungles of Vietnam to the protests in America.

959.704 L.86-f Lipsman, Samuel. Fighting for time. Boston, MA: Boston Pub. Co., c1983.

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Lunn, Hugh, 1941-. Vietnam: a reporter's war. New York: Stein and Day, 1987, c1985. Australian journalist Lunn provides a memoir of his experiences, including 1968 TET offensive, the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment on combat missions, the role of Australian troops, and the contempt that many GIs expressed openly toward the Vietnamese.

959.704 L.97-v Luu, Quy Ky. The Vietnamese problem. Hanoi: Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1967.

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McCarthy, Mary, 1912-. Vietnam. [1st ed.]. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1967]. A disturbing analytical indictment of America's role in Vietnam, McCarthy believed that Vietnam was nothing less than a moral catastrophe for America.

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McNamara, Robert S., 1916-. In retrospect: the tragedy and lessons of Vietnam. 1st ed. New York: Times Books, 1995. McNamara identifies eleven major causes for the war in Vietnam, and six points when the U.S. could legitimately have withdrawn, and assumes responsibility for failing to address many unexamined assumptions and disagreements that plagued decision making in those years.

959.704 M.28-c Maitland, Terrence. A contagion of war. Boston, MA: Boston Pub. Co., 1983.

959.704 M.28-r Maitland, Terrence. Raising the stakes. Boston, MA: Boston Pub. Co., 1982.

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Mann, Robert, 1958-. A grand delusion: America’s descent into Vietnam. 1st ed. New York: Basic Books, c2001. A political history of Congress' role in allowing the war to escalate, and especially the response of the Senate to the ever-incremental, ever-deepening American entanglement in Indochina that began with the first dollars and advisors sent there by Truman in 1950.

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McNamara, Robert S., 1916-. Argument without end : in search of answers to the Vietnam tragedy. 1st ed. New York : Public Affairs, 1999. The former Secretary of Defense collaborates with leading scholars from the United States and Vietnam to offer a new study of exactly how the Vietnam War happened--and why it could not be stopped before three million people died.

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McDonald, Cherokee Paul. Into the green : a reconnaissance by fire. New York : Plume, 2001. In a series of interlocking episodes the author describes the daily grind of military life, and the terror and brutality of active combat.

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McDonald, Cherokee Paul. Into the green : a reconnaissance by fire. New York : Plume, 2001. In a series of interlocking episodes the author describes the daily grind of military life and the terror and brutality of active combat.

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Moore, Harold G., 1922-. We were soldiers once-and young : Ia Drang, the battle that changed the war in Vietnam. 1^st Harper Perennial Ed. New York, NY : HarperPerennial, 1993. The Battle of Ia Drang highlighted a technological advance that would play an enormous role in the rest of the war: this was perhaps the first place where helicopter-based, air-mobile operations demonstrated their combat potential.

959.704 N.15-n Traan, Mai Nam. The narrow strip of land (the story of a journey). Hanoi: Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1969.

959.704 N.35-n Neo Lao Haksat. Comité central. Nixon's "intensified special war" in Laos: a criminal war doomed to fail. [Vientiane?]: Central Committee of the Lao Patriotic Front, [1972].

959.704 O1.8-d Dictionary of the Vietnam War. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.

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Vietnam voices: perspectives on the war years, 1941-1982. New York: Penguin Books, c1984. Samples oral and written documentation from foot soldiers to generals, politicians to protesters, hawks and doves, to illuminate American attitudes and experiences of the war.

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Prochnau, William W., 1937-. Once upon a distant war. New York, N.Y. : Times Books, 1995. An account of the early years of American involvement in Vietnam, and of the war correspondents who made it their beat.

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Puller, Lewis B. Fortunate son : the autobiography of Lewis B. Puller, Jr. 1st ed. New York : Grove Weidenfeld, 1991. Memoir of a man born into a proud military legacy who struggles to rebuild his life after the Vietnam War shattered his body and his ideals.

959.704 R. 18-v Raskin, Marcus G. The Viet-Nam reader: articles and documents on American foreign policy and the Vietnam crisis. New York: Random House, [1965].

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Reich, Dale Everett. Rockets like rain a year in Vietnam. Central Point, OR : Hellgate Press, 2001. The tiny Wisconsin town of Oconomowoc lost 10 young men to the war in Vietnam. One who survived was Dale Reich, who approximately 30 years later has put his 365-day experience into words.

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Reporting Vietnam. New York: Library of America: Distributed to the trade in the USA by Penguin Putnam, 1998. pt. 1. American journalism 1959-1969 -- pt. 2. American journalism 1969-1975. Drawn from the original newspapers, magazine reports and contemporary books,, brings together the work of over fifty writers to create a mosaic view of the Vietnam war.

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Rice, Earle. The Tet offensive. San Diego: Lucent Books, 1996. Describes the planning, execution, and results of the North Vietnamese army’s major offensive in the Vietnam War.

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Light at the end of the tunnel: a Vietnam War anthology. New York: St. Martin's, 1991. Collection of some of the best writing of the period, gives an overview of the conflict.

959.704 Sa.1-1 Saenger, Diane, 1946-. Life as a POW. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, c2001.

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Santoli, Al. Everything we had : an oral history of the Vietnam War. 1st Ballantine Books ed. New York : Ballantine Books, 1982, c1981. An oral history of the Vietnam War by thirty-three American soldiers.

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The American experience in Vietnam: a reader. 1st ed. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, c1989. Gives an overview of American and military policy in Vietnam, as well as the role of the press and the antiwar movement.

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Shawcross, William. Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the destruction of Cambodia. New York: Simon and Schuster, c1979. An investigative account of the secret war in Cambodia during the Vietnam War, and of the use of power by Nixon and Kissinger in Indo-Chinese foreign policy.

959.704 Sh.2-s Sharp, Ulysses S. Grant, 1906-. Strategy for defeat: Vietnam in retrospect. San Rafael, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1978.

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Sheehan, Neil. A bright shining lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. 1st ed. New York: Random House, c1988. The story of Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, who went to Vietnam in 1962 and served as a civilian worker in the pacification program until his death in 1972.

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Simons, Donald L. (Donald Laird), 1945-. I refuse: memories of a Vietnam war objector. Trenton, N.J.: Broken Rifle Press, c1992. Account of the author's resistance to participation in the Vietnam War.

959.704So.1-s South Vietnam: U.S.-Communist confrontation in Southeast Asia,. New York: Facts on File, l973. v. 1 1961-65 -- v. 2. 1966-67 -- v. 3. 1968 -- v. 4. 1969 -- v. 5. 1970 -- v. 6. 1971 -- v. 7. 1972-1973.

959.704 So.5-w Truong Son. The Winter 1966-Spring 1967 victory and five lessons concerning the conduct of military strategy. Hanoi: Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1967.

959.704 St.7-i Images of war. Boston, MA: Boston Pub. Co., c1986.

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Summers, Harry G. Vietnam War Almanac. New York: Facts on File, c1985. Presents sections on history and geography, military and political events in chronological order, and alphabetically arranged articles on people, battles, weapons, controversial issues, etc.

959.704 T.34-n Thee, Marek, 1918-. Notes of a witness: Laos and the second Indochinese war. [1st ed.]. New York: Vintage Books, [1973].

959.704 T.42-n Hai Thu. North Viet Nam against U.S. Air Force. Hanoi: Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1967.

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Tripp, Nathaniel. Father, soldier, son : memoir of a platoon leader in Vietnam. S. Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press;, c1996. Interwoven with this memoir of Vietnam is how the author comes to terms with his own terror, with his failed father and their failed relationship, and how he makes up for the lost love of a parent by becoming something like a father to the men in his platoon.

959.704 V.67-m The Vietnam War. Reference ed. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 1988. v. 1. The overview -- v. 2. The Green Berets -- v. 3. The helicopter war -- v. 4. Air war, South Vietnam -- v. 5. River war -- v. 6. Leathernecks -- v. 7. Air war, North Vietnam -- v. 8. Tet '68 -- v. 9. War at sea -- v. 10. The grunts -- v. 11. People and politics -- v. 12. After the war.

959.704 V.67-y The Year 1968: chronology. Hanoi: Distributor, XUNHASABA, 1970.

959.704 V.89-b Võ, Nguyên Giáp,, 1912-. Banner of people's war, the party's military line. New York: Praeger, [1970].

959.704 W.46-p The People vs. presidential war. New York: Dunellen Co., [1970].

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Wolff, Tobias, 1945-. In Pharaoh's army : memories of the lost war. New York : Knopf, 1994. The story of the author's adult years chronicles his military career, from his stint with the elite Special Services to his experiences in Vietnam.

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Dawson, Alan, 1942-. 55 days: the fall of South Vietnam. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, c1977. First hand account from a journalist who covered the fall of Saigon from inside the city.

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Hillstrom, Kevin, 1963-. Vietnam War : almanac. Detroit, MI : U.X.L, c2001.

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Hillstrom, Kevin, 1963-. Vietnam War : biographies. Detroit, MI: U.X.L, 2001.

959.7043 K.96-g Kurland, Gerald, 1942-. The Gulf of Tonkin incidents. Charlotteville, N.Y.: SamHar Press, 1975.

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Laurence, John. The cat from Hué : a Vietnam war story. 1st ed. New York : PublicAffairs, c2002 . Lawrence provides riveting, searingly evocative depictions of the U.S. Army, Marines and South Vietnamese Army in action in the American war's early days (1965-1966), at its height (in 1968) and during the 1970 Cambodian incursion.

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Record, Jeffrey. The wrong war: why we lost in Vietnam. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, c1998. Places the blame for the war on both the military and civilian leadership for their lack of communication and inability to establish a clear objective.

959.7043 V.67-d

The Vietnam reader: the definitive collection of American fiction and nonfiction on the war. New York: Anchor Books, 1998. A selection of the best-known art from the American war in Vietnam, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, film, still photos, and popular song lyrics.

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Nguyen, Kien. The unwanted: a memoir. Boston: Little Brown, 2001. The only memoir by an Amerasian who stayed behind in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon and who is now living in America.

Truman Administration, 1945-1953:

973.918 D.71-c Donovan, Robert J. Conflict and crisis: the Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945-1948. 1st ed. New York: Norton, c1977.

973.918 F.77-f Forrestal, James, 1892-1949. The Forrestal diaries. New York: Viking Press, 1951.

973.918 G.56-c Goldman, Eric Frederick, 1915-. The crucial decade--and after; America, 1945-1960. New York, Knopf, 1965 [c1960].

973.918 H. 17-m Hamby, Alonzo L. Man of the people: a life of Harry S. Truman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

973.918 H.33-a Haynes, Richard F. The awesome power, Harry S. Truman as Commander in Chief. Baton Rouge, La: Louisiana State University Press, [1973].

973.9,18 H.36-h Helm, William P. (William Pickett). Harry Truman: a political biography. [1st ed.]. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, [1947].

973.918 L.56-t Letters from father: the Truman family's personal correspondence. New York: Arbor House, c1981.

973.918 M.11-r MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964. Reminiscences. [1st ed.]. New York: McGraw-Hill, [1964].

973.918 M.11-s MacArthur, Douglas, 1880-1964. A soldier speaks: public papers and speeches of General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur. New York: Praeger, [1965].

973.918 M.3 I-a Manchester, William Raymond, 1922-. American Caesar, Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, c1978.

973.918 M.45 -m Mayer, S. L. (Sydney L.), 1937-. MacArthur. New York: Ballantine Books, 1971.

973.918 M.6 I -p Miller, Merle, 1919-. Plain speaking: an oral biography of Harry S. Truman. New York: Berkley Pub. Corp.; distributed by Putnam, [1974]. Based on a series of interviews with the former President during the early sixties recounting his views of the historic times he lived in as well as his own life.

973.918 R.71-c Rose, Lisle Abbott, 1936-. The Cold War comes to Main Street: America in 1950. Lawrence University Press of Kansas, 1999.

973.918 St.3-m Steinberg, Alfred, 1917-. Man from Missouri: the life and times of Harry S. Truman. New York: Putnam, 1962.

973.918 T.77-h Truman, Margaret, 1924-. Harry S. Truman. New York: Morrow, 1973 [c1972].

973.918 T.77-m Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972. Memoirs of Harry S. Truman. New York: Da Capo Press, 1986, [c1955]. Library has volume 1.

973.92 B.45-a

Berman, William C., 1932-. America's right turn: from Nixon to Bush. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c1994. Examines the political, cultural, and economic context of two decades of conservative Republican rule in the US.

Second Half of Twentieth Century in America:

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History behind the headlines : the origins of conflicts worldwide. [1st ed.]. Detroit : Gale Group, c2001. Afghan Taliban -- Deforestation of the Amazon -- Bosnia-Herzogovina: Civil War -- Brazil: Racism and equality--Chechnya and Russia: War of succession --Chiapas Rebellion -- Columbian drug wars --Democratic Republic of Congo --Cuba and the United States -- Ethiopa and Eritrea: Border War -- Gaza Strip and West Bank: statehood and security -- German Right Wing Extremism -- Humanitarian aid: compassion and controversy -- Iraq: economic sanctions -- Kashmir: war in the Himalayas -- Kurds in Turkey --Liberia in civil war -- Nagorno-Karabakh: self determination and ethnic identification -- Oil: protectionist pricing and fuel dependence -- Extradition of Chilean General Augusto Pinochet: justice delayed? -- Roma (Gypsies) in Easter Europe -- Rwanda and Burundi: culture, history and genocide -- Serbia and NATO: the 1999 war -- Collapse of the USSR and formation of independent republics -- Sudan: slavery and civil war -- Syria and Israel -- Taiwan and China -- U.S. militant separatist movements -- Venezuela: new military populism --World Trade Organization: the battle in Seattle.

973.92 B.81-a Brown, Stuart Gerry, 1912-. Adlai E. Stevenson, a short biography: the conscience of the country. Woodbury, N.Y.: Barron's Woodbury Press, [1965].

973.92 C. 15-s Campbell, Angus, 1910-. The sense of well-being in America: recent patterns and trends. New York McGraw-Hill, c1981.

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Chafe, William Henry. The unfinished journey: America since World War II. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Recounts the significant cultural and political themes that have colored our country's past and present through the decades since World War II, including issues of race, class, gender foreign policy, and economic and social reform.

973.92 C.61-k Clinch, Nancy Gager. The Kennedy neurosis. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1973].

973.92 H. 12-f

Halberstam, David. The fifties. 1st ed. New York: Villard Books, 1993. Presents the 1950's, integrating history, social change, politics and technology and their impact on each other and the world.

973.92 H.43-e Hersh, Burton. The education of Edward Kennedy: a family biography. New York: Morrow, 1972.

973.92 H.91-c

Hunter, James Davison, 1955-. Culture wars: the struggle to define America. [New York]: BasicBooks, c1991. Uses historical references to religious battles throughout American history to show how previous ecumenical divisions among Catholics, Protestants, and Jews have become realigned in recent years.

973.92 J.72-g

Jones, Landon Y., 1943-. Great expectations: America and the baby boom generation. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, c1980. This book about the post-World War II baby boom generation explores what it is like and the influences it has had.

973.92 K.38-1 Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. "Let the word go forth": the speeches, statements, and writings of John F. Kennedy. New York: Delacorte Press, c1988. Contains significant passages from a wide range of addresses between 1947 and 1963.

973.92 L.574

Leuchtenburg, William Edward, 1922-. In the shadow of FDR: from Harry Truman to Ronald Reagan. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983. Examines the influence of FDR’s strategies and policies on the administrations of the eight men who have succeeded him in the oval office.

973.92 L.63-k Lincoln, Evelyn, 1912?-. Kennedy and Johnson. [1st ed.]. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1968].

973.92 M.45-n Mazo, Earl, 1919-. Nixon: a political portrait. [1st ed]. New York: Harper & Row, [1968].

973.92 On.2-1 Life--the '60s. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, c1989. 250 images from the archives of Life magazine portray the nation's challenges and trials during the sixties.

973.92 Os. I -p Osborne, Thomas J., 1942-. Paths to the present: thoughts on the contemporary relevance of America's past. New York: Wiley, [1974].

973.92 P.42-b

Perlstein, Rick, 1969-. Before the storm: Barry Goldwater and the unmaking of the American consensus. 1st ed. New York: Hill and Wang, 2001. How the decade of the Beatles, bell-bottoms, and sexual revolution also laid the groundwork for Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich is examined through an analysis of Arizona senator Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign.

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The sixties in America. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1999. 554 articles covering the sweep of issues, events, culture, and individuals of 1960’s, as well as providing insight into some of the decade's more commonplace and less sensational aspects.

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Toropov, Brandon. Encyclopedia of coldwar politics. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2000. More than 700 entries focusing almost exclusively on American domestic events and issues that were affected by the cold war.

973.92 R.3 I-w Reston, James, 1909-. Washington. New York: London: Macmillan ; Collier Macmillan, c1986.

973.92 R.73-r Ross, Douglas. Robert F. Kennedy, apostle of change. New York: Trident Press, [1968].

973.92 R.76-a Rovere, Richard Halworth, 1915-. The American establishment and other reports, opinions, and speculations. [1st ed.]. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, [ 1962].

973.92 Sch.7-a

Schrecker, Ellen. The age of McCarthyism: a brief history with documents. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, c1994. Discusses the origins, escalation, and demise of the anti- Communist campaign in the US, using congressional transcripts, FBI reports, speeches, letters, and other original documents from the era.

973.92 Sh.5-1 Sherrill, Robert. The last Kennedy. New York: Dial Press, 1976.

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White, Theodore Harold, 1915-. America in search of itself: the making of the President, 1956-1980. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, c1982. Describes the forces that changed American politics during those 25 years. and discusses the campaign and election of 1980.

973.92 W.77-y

Witcover, Jules. The year the dream died: revisiting 1968 in America. New York: Warner Books, c1997. A look at the end of the Johnson presidency, including the assassination of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, campus riots, and the rise of Richard Nixon, and its consequences on today's society.

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Wright, Mike, 1938-. What they didn't teach you about the 60s. Novato, CA : Presidio, c2001. A compendium-style history of the 1960s that searches for obscure facts and convergences from that tumultuous decade. Although the author bemusedly depicts the wacky excesses of "Baby Boomer" youth, he ignores how their self-indulgence ushered in a 30-year "backlash" of American conservatism.

Eisenhower Administration, 1953-1961

973.921 Ad.1-f Adams, Sherman, 1899-1986. Firsthand report: the story of the Eisenhower administration. [1st ed.]. New York: Harper, [ 1961].

973.921 Am.1-e Ambrose, Stephen E. Eisenhower. New York: Simon & Schuster, c I 983-c1984. v. 1. Soldier, general of the army, President-elect, 1890-1952 --v.2. The President.

973.921 An.2-m Anderson, John F. McCarthy: the man, the Senator, the "Ism". Boston: Beacon Press, 1952.

973.921 B.36-j Beal, John Robinson. John Foster Dulles: 1888-1959. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, [1974, c1959].

973.921 B.46-m

Beschloss, Michael R. MAYDAY: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 affair. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, c1986. Describes the events in 1960 when an U.S. spy plane was shot down in the Soviet Union just prior to a vital summit meeting.

973.921 D.35-m Rorty, James, 1890-1973. McCarthy and the Communists. Boston: Beacon Press, [1954].

973.921 D.64-s

Divine, Robert A. The Sputnik challenge. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Examines Eisenhower's handling of the early space race including the first two Sputnik launches, the formation of NASA, and the age of the ICBM.

973.921 E.27-e Eisenhower, David, 1948-. Eisenhower at war, 1943-1945. 1st ed. New York: Random House, c1986. Describes the public career of Dwight Eisenhower beginning at the time he was named Supreme Commander after the Teheran Conference in 1943, during World War II.

973.921 Ei.8-e Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969. The Eisenhower diaries. lst ed. New York: Norton, c1981. Eisenhower's life as chronicled from his diary entries from 1935 until his death.

973.921 Ei.84 Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969. In review: pictures I've kept: a concise pictorial autobiography. [1st ed.]. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1969.

973.921 Ei.8-w Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969. The White House years. [1st ed.]. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1963-65. [v.1] Mandate for change, 1953-1956.--[v.2] Waging peace, 1956-1961.

973..921 Ei.8-w Eisenhower 'Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969. Waging peace, 1956-1961: the White House years. [1st ed.]. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1965.

973.921 Ew.1-w Ewald, William Bragg, 1925-. Who killed Joe McCarthy? New York: Simon and Schuster, c1984.

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Fast, Howard, 1914-. Being red. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. A memoir of the author's years as a member of the Communist party from 1944 to 1957 revealing the workings of the party and the repercussions.

973.921 H.74-t This is Ike: the picture study of the man. New York: Holt, [1952].

973.921 H.76-d Hoopes, Townsend, 1922-. The devil and John Foster Dulles. [1st ed.]. Boston: Little, Brown, [1973].

973.921 H.87-o Hughes, Emmet John, 1920-. The ordeal of power: a political memoir of the Eisenhower years. [1st ed.]. New York: Atheneum, 1963.

973.921 L.82-a Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1902-. As it was: an inside view of politics and power in the '50s and'60s. 1st ed. New York: Norton, c1976.

973.921 L.99-e Lyon, Peter, 1915-. Eisenhower: portrait of the hero. [1st ed.]. Boston: Little, Brown, [1974].

973.921 M.36-a Martin, John Bartlow, 1915-1987. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois: the life of Adlai E. Stevenson. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976.

973.921 P.97-e Pusey, Merlo John, 1902-. Eisenhower, the president. New York: Macmillan, 1956.

973.921 R.76-e Rovere, Richard Halworth, 1915-. The Eisenhower years: affairs of state. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, [1956].

973.921 St.7-h

Stone, I. F. (Isidor F.), 1907-. The haunted fifties, 1953-1963. Boston: Little, Brown, [1989], c1963. A collection of pieces from Stone's "Weekly" covering a ten year period 1953 to 1963.

973.921 W.32-e Watkins, Arthur V. (Arthur Vivian), 1886-1973. Enough rope: the inside story of the censure of Senator Joe McCarthy by his colleagues, the controversial hearings that signaled the end of a turbulent career and a fearsome era in American public life. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, [1969].

Kennedy Administration, 1961-1963:

973.922 Am.3-f Four days: the historical record of the death of President Kennedy. [New York]: American Heritage Pub. Co., 1964. The events from the moment of President Kennedy's assassination to his burial three days later.

973.922 B.53-j Birmingham, Stephen. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. New York: Grossett & Dunlap, 1978.

973.922 B.61-o

Blight, James G. On the brink: Americans and Soviets reexamine the Cuban missile crisis. New York: Hill and Wang, 1989. In January 1989, many of the principal actors in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis met with scholars for two days in Moscow to examine the events and lessons of the crisis.

973.922 B.72-c Bradlee, Benjamin C. Conversations with Kennedy. New York: Norton, [1975].

973.922 B.73-j Brauer, Carl M., 1946-. John F. Kennedy and the second reconstruction. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.

973.922 B. 83-e

Brugioni, Dino A. Eyeball to eyeball: the inside story of the Cuban missile crisis. 1st ed. New York Random House, c1991. Detailed day-by-day history of the Cuban missile crisis by the author who was a senior intelligence official at the time.

973.922 B.93-i Bums, James MacGregor. John Kennedy: a political profile. [1st ed.]. New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1960].

973.922 C.69-k Collier, Peter. Kennedys: an American drama. New York: Summit, 1984.

973.922 C.89-n

The Cuban missile crisis, 1962: a National Security Archive documents reader. New York: The New Press, 1992. Employing 83 recently declassified documents this look at the Cuban Missile Crisis challenges the official history of the event as a model of crisis management, and reveals how close the world came to nuclear destruction in 1962.

973.922 D.22-s Daniel, James, 1916-. Strike in the West: the complete story of the Cuban crisis. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963.

973.922 D.64-c

The Cuban missile crisis. 2nd ed. New York: M. Wiener Pub., 1988. Explores the unresolved questions raised by the Cuban Missile Crisis of October, 1962.

973.922 F. 87-k

Freedman, Lawrence. Kennedy's wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Examines the intellectual and political contexts of the Kennedy administration, giving attention to largely overlooked advisors such as Dean Acheson, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Theodore Sorensen, and Walt Rostow, all of whom influenced the conduct of the administration as it confronted military and political foes around the world.

973.922 G.44-w

Gitlin, Todd. The whole world is watching: mass media in the making & unmaking of the New Left. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1980. How The New York Times and CBS reported on Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and how their choices mattered for the development of the 60s movement and the containment of serious political change.

973.922 G.56-p Goldfarb, Ronald L. Perfect villains, imperfect heroes: Robert F. Kennedy's war against organized crime. 1st ed. New York: Random House, c1995.

973.922 G.63-f Goodwin, Doris Kearns. The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. New York: Simon and Schuster, c1987. bk. 1. The Fitzgeralds, 1863-1915 -- bk. 2. The Kennedys, 1915-1940 -- bk. 3. The golden trio, 1941-1961.

973.922 G.74-c

Gow, Catherine Hester, 1956-. The Cuban missile crisis. San Diego, CA: Lucent Books, c1997. Examines the events before, during, and after the confrontation between the United States and Cuba over the presence of Soviet missiles.

973.922 H. 12-b

Halberstam, David. The best and the brightest. 1st ed. New York: Random House, 1972. Chronicle of Kennedy administration and its legacy--featuring portraits of the men who conceived and executed the Vietnam War, including Robert McNamara, McGeorge Bundy, Dean Rusk, and Lyndon Johnson.

973-922 H. I 8-j Hamilton, Nigel. JFK, reckless youth. 1st ed. New York: Random House, 1992. Biography of the early years of president John F. Kennedy's life based on never before published letters and documents and more, than two thousand interviews.

973.922K.38-b Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. The burden and the glory. [1^st ed.]. New York: Harper & Row, [1964].

973.922 K.38-k Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. Kennedy and the Press: the news conferences. New York: Crowell, 1965.

973.922 K.3 8-p Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968. The Pursuit of Justice. [1st ed.]. New York: Harper & Row, [1964].

973.922 K.84-b

Bay of Pigs declassified: the secret CIA report on the invasion of Cuba. New York: The New Press, c1998. The scathing internal report on the worst foreign policy debacle of the Kennedy administration, written by the CIA's then-Inspector General, Lyman Kirkpatrick.

973.922 L.24-r Lane, Mark. Rush to judgment: a critique of the Warren Commission's inquiry into the murders of President John F. Kennedy, Officer J. D. Tippit, and Lee Harvey Oswald. [1st ed.]. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, [1966].

973.922 L.63-m Lincoln, Evelyn, 1912?-. My twelve years with John F. Kennedy. New York: D. McKay Co., [1965]. Recollections of the woman who served as personal secretary to John F. Kennedy from his first days as Congressman through his years as President.

973.922 M.22-rn McMillan, Priscilla Johnson. Marina and Lee. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, c1977.

973.922 M.34-s Markmann, Charles Lam. John F. Kennedy: a sense of purpose. New York: St. Martin's Press, [1961].

973.922 M.43-k

Matthews, Christopher, 1945-. Kennedy & Nixon : the rivalry that shaped postwar America. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1996. Traces the rivalry between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon, whose 1960 presidential contest set America's Cold War political course.

973.922 M.45-k

The Kennedy tapes: inside the White House during the Cuban missile crisis. Cambridge, Mass: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1997. The events of the Cuban Missile Crisis unfold in the actual words of President John F. Kennedy and his top advisers.

973.922 M.83-b Morrow, Robert D. Betrayal. Chicago: H. Regnery, 1976.

973.922 Od.5-j O'Donnell, Kenneth P., 1924-1977. "Johnny, we hardly knew ye": memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Boston: Little Brown, 1972.

973.922 R.25-p

Reeves, Richard. President Kennedy: profile of power. New York: Simon & Schuster, c1993. Presents John F. Kennedy's three years in the White House in a day-by-day, often minute-by-minute, Oval Office narrative of what it was, and is, like to be President of the United States.

973.922 Sa.3-w Salinger, Pierre. With Kennedy. [1st ed.]. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966.

973.922 Sch.3-r Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, 1917-. Robert Kennedy and his times. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. A biography of the Senator who was assassinated in 1968, stressing the public and personal forces and events that shaped his life.

973.922 Sch.3-t Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, 1917-. A thousand days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1965.

973.922 So.6-k Sorensen, Theodore C. Kennedy. New York: Harper & Row, c1965.

973.922 Su.6-c Summers, Anthony. Conspiracy. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980.

973.922 W.82-o

Wofford, Harris. Of Kennedys and Kings: making sense of the sixties. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. Reexamines the decade of Kennedy's presidency and the Civil Rights movement.

Johnson Administration, 1963-1969:

973.923 B.46-t

Beschloss, Michael R. Taking charge: the Johnson White House tapes, 1963-1964. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. These conversations recorded inside the oval office form a fascinating record of the first nine months of Johnson's administration, providing new insights into his character and a revealing look at the day-to-day workings of his presidency and the crucial decisions he would make on Vietnam and civil rights.

973.923 C.46-p Christian, George, 1927-. The President steps down: a personal memoir of the transfer of power. [New York]: Macmillan, [1970].

973.923 C.8 1 -1 Cormier, Frank. LBJ the way he was. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977.

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Dallek, Robert. Flawed giant: Lyndon Johnson and his times 1961-1973. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. A comprehensive account of how LBJ masterminded epochal reform measures that affected nearly every American, including civil rights, Medicare, federal aid to education, consumer protection, and environmentalism, and also displays the depth of his private anguish as he became increasingly ensnared in Vietnam.

973.923 D. 16-1

Dallek, Robert. Lone star rising: Lyndon Johnson and his times, 1908-1960. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

973.923 D.3 5-a

DeBenedetti, Charles. An American ordeal: the antiwar movement of the Vietnam era. 1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1990. An interpretive history of the antiwar movement in the United States throughout the Vietnam era.

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Evans, Rowland, 192 1 -. Lyndon B. Johnson; the exercise of power: a political biography. [New York]: New American Library, [1966].

973.923 G.6-t Goldman, Eric Frederick, 1915-. The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson. [1st ed.]. New York: Knopf, 1969.

Ref 973.923 H. 18-a

Hamilton, Neil A., 1949-. The ABC-CLIO companion to the 1960s counterculture in America. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, c1997. 400 entries provide details on notable persons who stirred up alternative ideas, such as Stokely Carmichael, Betty Friedan, Abbie Hoffman, and Andy Warhol, events such as Woodstock, the 1968 nationwide protest against the Vietnam War, racism and the civil rights movement, and new directions in music, art, clothing, and language.

973.923 G.22-y Caro, Robert A. The years of Lyndon Johnson. 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1982-1990. v. 1. The path to power -- v. 2. Means of ascent.

973.923 Is.7-a

Isserman, Maurice. America divided: the Civil War of the 1960's. New York: Oxford University Press. 1999. Reinterprets the `60s as a time of civil war, not merely civil disobedience, as demonstrated by the multiple events Americans had to deal with almost simultaneously, including the civil rights movement, the Great Society, Vietnam and the antiwar movement, the New Left, and youth culture.

973.923 J.63-v Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973. The vantage point: perspectives of the Presidency, 1963-1969. [1st ed.]. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1971].

973.923 J.63-w Johnson, Lady Bird, 1912-. A White House diary. [1st ed.]. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1970].

973.923 K.2 1 -1 Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Lyndon Johnson and the American dream. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, c1976. Character study of LBJ, especially toward the end of his life.

973.923 K.9 I -a

Kronenwetter, Michael. America in the 1960s. San Diego: Lucent Books, 1998. Discusses a decade of enormous change and conflict in all areas of life including science, civil rights, social welfare, national defense, politics, and the arts.

973.923 M.83-f From Camelot to Kent State the sixties experience in the words of those who lived it. 1st ed. New York: Times Books, 1987.

973.923 N.62-g

The 1960s: opposing viewpoints. San Diego, Calif.: Greenhaven Press, 1997. A chronology of significant political, historic, and publishing events during this decade. Selections from U.S. government propaganda, in-depth news articles and interviews, activist-group manifestos, and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech are among the primary-source materials made available.

973.923 R.25-1 Reedy, George E., 1917-. Lyndon B. Johnson, a memoir. New York: Andrews and McMeel, 1982.

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Shesol, Jeff. Mutual contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the feud that defined a decade. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997. Filters Johnson's entire vice-presidential and presidential careers through the lens of his hatred of Robert Kennedy and RFK's reciprocal contempt for Johnson.

973.923 Si.9-g

Sixties counterculture. San Diego, Calif.: Greenhaven Press, c2001. Presents eyewitness accounts of significant events such as feminism, war protests, civil rights, free speech, the hippie culture, and the birth of yippies, as well as primary-source material-from figures such as Huey Newton, Carletta Fields, and Eldridge Cleaver, and excerpts from books written well after that decade.

973.923 St.3-s Steinberg, Alfred, 1917-. Sam Johnson's boy: a close-up of the President from Texas. New York: Macmillan, [1968].

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Turbulent years: the 60s. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1998. Draws heavily on the photos that appeared in Time and Life magazines to document the people and events of that decade.

973.923 V.23-v Valenti, Jack. A very human President. 1st ed. New York: Norton, [1975].

973.923 W.58-rn White, Theodore H. The making of the President, 1964. [Book Club ed.]. New York: Atheneum, c1965.

Nixon Administration, 1969-1974:

973.924 Am.1-n Ambrose, Stephen E. Nixon. New York: Simon and Schuster, c1987-6991. v. 1. The education of a politician, 1913-1962 -- v. 2. The triumph of a politician, 1962-1972 -- v. 3. Ruin and recovery, 1973-1990.

973.924 Am.3-p The President's trip to China. New York: Bantam Books, [1972].

973:924 An.8-e Anson, Robert Sam, 1945-. Exile: the unquiet oblivion of Richard M. Nixon. New York: Simon and Schuster, c1984.

973.924 D.34-m Dean, Maureen. "Mo": a woman's view of Watergate. New York: Simon and Schuster, [1975].

973.924 B.45-n

Berman, Larry. No peace, no honor : Nixon, Kissinger, and betrayal in Vietnam. New York : Free Press, c2001. Berman's research indicates that President Richard Nixon claimed he achieved "peace with honor" while knowing full well that the terms he agreed to would lead eventually to a North Vietnamese military victory following America's withdrawal.

973.924 Eh.8-w Ehrlichman, John. Witness to power: the Nixon years. New York: Simon and Schuster, c1982.

973.924 Em.3-w Emery, Fred. Watergate: the corruption of American politics and the fall of Richard Nixon. New York: Touchstone, 1995.

973.924 K. 12-k Kalb, Marvin L. Kissinger. [1st ed.]. Boston: Little, Brown, [1974].

973.924 K.64-y Kissinger, Henry, 1923-. Years of upheaval. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, c1982. Recalls the turbulent years of the second administration of Richard Nixon.

973.924 K.64-y Kissinger, Henry, 1923 -. Years of renewal. New York: Simon & Schuster, c1999.

973.924 L.72-r

Rolling stone: the seventies. 1st ed. Boston: Little, Brown, 1998. Examins the events, people, and ideas that characterized the 1970’s, from Watergate to water bongs, from Kissinger to Kiss, from Saturday Night Live to Saturday Night Fever, from the birth of the P.C. to the birth of punk. Includes one hundred photographs, and a month-by-month timeline of the entire decade.

973.924 M. 17-s McGinniss, Joe. The selling of the President, 1968. New York: Trident Press, [1969].

973.924 M.454 Mazlish, Bruce, 1923-. In search of Nixon: a psychohistorical inquiry. New York: Basic Books, [1972].

973.924 N.65-m Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-. RN: the memoirs of Richard Nixon. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978. The autobiography of the thirty-seventh President of the United States.

973.924 Os. 1-n Osbome, John, 1907-. The Nixon watch. New York: Liveright, [1970].

973.924 W.58-w White, Theodore Harold, 1915-. The making of the President, 1968. [1st ed.]. New York: Atheneum Publishers, 1969.

973.924 W.68-n Wills, Garry, 1934-. Nixon agonistes: the crisis of the self-made man. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970.

973.924 W.77-w Witcover, Jules. White knight: the rise of Spiro Agnew. [1st ed.]. New York: Random House, [1972].

973.924 W.87-f

Woodward, Bob. The final days. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1976. Portrays the post-Watergate White House of Richard Nixon, as the President, his family, his staff and many legislators strained desperately to prevent his resignation.

Ford Administration, 1974-1977:

973.925 F.74-h Ford, Gerald R., 1913 Humor and the Presidency. New York: Arbor House, c1987.

973.925 F.75-t Ford, Betty, 1918-. The times of my life. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.

973.925 H.43-p Hersey, John, 1914-. The President. 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1975.

973.925 K. 86-i Kramer, Michael S., 1948-. "I never wanted to be vice-president of anything!": An investigative biography of Nelson Rockefeller. New York: Basic Books, c1976.

973.925 M.77-f Moody, Sidney C. 444 Days: the American hostage story. New York: Rutledge Press, c1981.

973.925 T.27-9 TerHorst, Jerald F. Gerald Ford and the future of the presidency. New York: Third Press, [ 1974].

Carter Administration, 1977-1981:

973.926 C.24-k Carter, Jimmy, 1924-. Keeping faith: memoirs of a president. Toronto; New York: Bantam Books, 1982. Presents Carter’s personal view of life in the White House, the crises he faced, the people he worked with, and the advice he received as president of the United States.

973.926 K.16-p Kaufman, Burton Ira. The presidency of James Earl Carter, Jr. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas, c1993. Examination of the Carter Presidency concentrating on major issues including arms control and the energy crisis.

973.926 W.88-d Wooten, James T. Dasher: the roots and the rising of Jimmy Carter. New York: Summit Books, 1978.

Reagan Administration, 1981-1989:

973.927C.16-r Cannon, Lou. Reagan. New York: Putnam, c1982. A biography of the fortieth U.S. president that delves into his character, his background, his associates, and politics in this country.

973.927 C.66-rn Cohen, William S. Men of zeal: a candid inside story of the Iran-Contra hearings. New York: Viking, 1988.

973.927 H.44-o Hertsgaard, Mark, 1956-. On bended knee: the press and the Reagan presidency. 1st ed. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1988. Examines the relations between the major news media and the Reagan Administration.

971.927 N.73-w Noonan, Peggy, 1950-. What I saw at the revolution: a political life in the Reagan era. 1st ed. New York: Random House, c1990. An account of the Reagan years in Washington and the world behind the words, by Peggy, the speechwriter.

973.927 R.22-r Reagan, Ronald. Reagan, in his own hand. New York; London: Free Press, c2001. "Ronald Reagan was an inveterate writer. He wrote not only letters, short fiction, poetry and sports stories, but speeches, newspaper articles, and radio commentary on public policy issues, both foreign and domestic."

George H. W. Bush Administration, 1989-1993:

973.928 B.46-t

The best of the Nation: selections from the independent magazine of politics and culture. New York: [Emeryville, Calif.]: Thunder's Mouth Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2000. Selection of articles and essays from The Nation magazine over the last decade, gives a sense of the diverse political, cultural, literary, and ideological perspectives of the times.

Clinton Administration, 1993-2001:

960.328 H.86-s

Huband, Mark. The skull beneath the skin : Africa after the Cold War. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2001. Explores the politics, culture, religion and likely future of the African continent after the Cold War. Huband argues that foreign involvement in Africa -- whether by colonialists, financial donors, armies, political reformers, or Cold War protagonists -- has been the single most destructive element in the continent's history.

973.929 Ap.5-d

Applebome, Peter. Dixie rising: how the South is shaping American values, politics and culture. New York: Times Books, 1996. Illuminates the people, places, and passions of this influential section of the country--an area that has effectively decided the outcome of every presidential election in the past 30 years.

973.929 D.82-s

Drew, Elizabeth. Showdown: the struggle between the Gingrich Congress and the Clinton White House. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. A behind-the-scenes look at how Newt Gringrich stormed Congress, how his revolution was cooled, and how Mr. Clinton's popularity plummeted and then rose again.

973.929 J.63

Johnson, Haynes Bonner, 1931-. The best of times : America in the Clinton years. 1st ed. New York : Harcourt, c2001. The author describes the 1990s as "an era characterized by accumulation of wealth and self-indulgence." He then delves into the events that brought us to where we are today, a country split so evenly culturally, politically and economically that the last presidential election ended in a dead heat

973.929 K.12-o

Kalb, Marvin L. One scandalous story : Clinton, Lewinsky, and thirteen days that tarnished American journalism. New York: Free Press, c2001. Presents a detailed account of how journalism debased itself with a feeding frenzy in 1998, when the Lewinsky affair first broke. Kalb's report on reporting is an engrossing and disturbing story of what happens when integrity gives way to expediency.

973.929 N.62-g The 1990s. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2000.

973.929 W.66-1 Will, George F. The leveling wind: politics, the culture, and other news, 1990-1994. New York: Penguin Books, 1995, c1994.

POETRY

808.80358 V.67-b

The Vietnam War in American stories, songs, and poems. Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, c1996. Based on the belief that knowing the American stories, songs and poems generated by the Vietnam War is essential for comprehendingAmerican history, literature, and culture since the early 1960s.

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The Vietnam War in American stories, songs, and poems. Boston : Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, c1996. Based on the belief that knowing the American stories, songs and poems generated by the Vietnam War is essential for comprehending American history, literature, and culture since the early

1960s.

811.5408 C.23-t

Carrying the darkness : the poetry of the Vietnam War. Lubbock, TX : Texas Tech University Press, 1989, c1985. A variety of poetry about the Vietnam War. Some of the poems are quite touching, while others reveal harsh experiences soldiers faced. Helpful to readers is a glossary of terms (pp. xxix-xxxi) that explains expressions common to Vietnam war vernacular. Also helpful is the autobiographical information on the authors in the back of the book which clarifies who was/was not an actual soldier in the war.

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From both sides now : the poetry of the Vietnam War and its aftermath. New York, NY : Scribner, c1998. This first-ever collection of the extraordinary poetry to emerge from the Vietnam War is a milestone of both literature and history--a stunningly varied and vivid meditation on one of the most shattering events in America's recent past.

FICTION

813.54 B.26-g

Barnes, H. Lee, 1944-. Gunning for Ho: Vietnam stories. Reno, Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, c2000. Six short stories and a novella by a former Vietnam War Green Beret.

813.54 B.72-m

Brady, James, 1928-. The Marines of autumn: a novel of the Korean War. 1st ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Fictionalized treatment of the disastrous Chosin Reservoir campaign in North Korea in the fall and early winter of 1950.

813.54 C. 15-o

Campbell, Tom. The Old Man's Trail Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1995. A former U.S. Marine and a veteran of the Vietnam War offers a fictional portrait of the Vietcong, tracing the brutal journey of a platoon of teenaged Vietnamese boys down the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

813.54 C.23-zc

Carroll, James. 1943-. An American requiem : my father, and the war that came between us. New York : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1996. The story of what it was like to be an anti-war priest in the '60s while the author's father was an Air Force general deeply involved in Pentagon planning.

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Del Vecchio, John M., 1948-. The l3th valley, a novel. 1st ed. New York: Bantam Books, 1982. Tells the strange and terrifying story of the Vietnam combat experiences of James Chelni, a telephone-systems installer who finds himself an infantryman in Vietcong-controlled territory.

813.54 D. 84-a

Drury, Allen. Advise and consent. Garden City, NY: Doubleday c1959. Probes the drama and maneuvering surrounding the choice of an American Secretary of State during the Cold War.

813.54 D.84-c

Drury, Allen. Come Nineveh, come Tyre; the presidency of Edward M. Jason. [1st ed.]. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1973. The story of a presidency during a time of turmoil at home and the Cold War abroad.

813.54 D. 84-p

Drury, Allen. Preserve and protect: a novel. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968. After the assassination of the President, the Speaker of the House becomes President. This novel, is about violence in American life and its effect on the country both at home and abroad.

813.54 D. 84-s Drury, Allen. A shade of difference: a novel. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962.

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Foley, Tom (Thomas C.). This way to heaven. lst ed. New York: Forge, 2000. A young American soldier lives a nightmare in this brutal story set in war-torn Bosnia.

813.54 G.17-b

Gardner, Mary. Boat people: a novel. 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1995. Refugees from Vietnam settle in Galveston , Texas. Seared by memories of escape and loss, these Vietnamese immigrants live with one foot in each world, struggling to maintain a balance between Vietnam and America.

813.54 G.97-s

Guterson, David. Snow falling on cedars. 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. A novel about the effects of the Japanese Relocation Camps of World War 11 on a later generation of Japanese Americans.

813.54 H.76-m

Hooker, Richard. M*A*S*H. New York: Morrow, 1997. The novel about the Korean War on which the popular television program was based.

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Keene, John, 1937-. Pettibone's law: a novel about the Vietnam War. New York: Linden Press/Simon& Schuster, c1991. Written in the irreverent tradition of Catch 22 and M*A*S*H, transforms the experiences of Vietnam into a dark comedy.

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Kogawa, Joy. Obasan. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York: Anchor Books, 1994. Based on the author's own experiences, tells the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War.

813.54 K. 5 8-h

King, Stephen, 1947-. Hearts in Atlantis. New York: Scribner, c1999. The story weaves five Vietnam-haunted small-town New England stories into an overall vision of the war.

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Lederer, William J., 1912-. Sarkhan. 1st ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965. In this sequel to The Ugly American, The United States is now at war in Vietnam, and is being drawn into a massive military presence in neighboring Sarkhan, to fight an illusory war that it cannot win.

813.54 L.49-u

Lederer, William J., 1912-. The ugly American. [1st ed.]. New York: Norton, [1958]. This novel is remembered for its stinging critique of American foreign policy and State Department practices in Asia during the Cold War, and for the author's accurate prediction that the United States would not only soon be drawn into war in Vietnam, but that our country would be humiliated in defeat.

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Mason, Bobbie Ann. In country: a novel. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, c1985. Sam Hughes, whose father was killed in Vietnam, sets out to understand the war.

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Michener, James A. (James Albert), 1907-. The bridges at Toko-ri. New York: Fawcett Crest, 1984, c1953. The story of a war-weary World War II veteran who must leave his family again to fight in the Korean War.

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O'Brien, Tim, 1946-. Going after Cacciato. New York: Broadway Books,1999, cl978. A private deserts his post in Vietnam, intent on walking 8,000 miles to Paris for the peace talks.

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O'Brien, Tim, 1946-. If I die in a combat zone, box me and ship me home. New York: Broadway Books, 1998. Based on O'Brien's experience as a Vietnam foot soldier, an unvarnished portrait of the infantry soldier's life that is at once mundane and terrifying--the endless days of patrolling punctuated by firefights that end as suddenly and inconclusively as they begin; the mind-numbing brutality of burned villages and trampled rice patties; the terror of tunnels, minefields, and the ever-present threat of death.

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O'Brien, Tim, 1946-. The things they carried: a work of fiction about the Vietnam War. 1st Broadway Books trade paperback ed. New York: Broadway Books, 1998. A collection of interrelated short stories about the men of Alpha Company, which take place in the childhoods of its characters, in the jungles of Vietnam, and back home in America two decades later.

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Salter, James. The hunters. Counterpoint ed., rev. Washington, D.C.: [Emeryville, Calif.] Counterpoint ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, c1997. Set during the Korean War, tells the story of a pilot who encounters expected foes--among which are boredom, uncertainty, and the limits of his own abilities--in his quest to become a flying ace.

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Simmons, Edwin H., 192 1 -. Dog Company Six. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, c2000. The story of George Bayard, a Marine reserve captain who is recalled to active duty in Korea for a command-and a challenge-he never would have chosen.

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Fields of fire. New York: Bantam Books, 1979, c1978. The story of a platoon of tough, young marines enduring the tropical hell of the jungles in Vietnam while facing an invisible enemy.

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Burruss, L. H. Heart of the storm: a novel of men and women in the Gulf War. San Jose: Writers Club Press, 2000. A novel about the lives of men and women in the Gulf War.

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Le Carré, John, 193 1-. The honorable schoolboy. 1st trade ed. New York: Knopf, 1977. In an attempt to recover from the devastating effects of having uncovered a double agent in a high position in its organization, the British Secret Service carries out an elaborate espionage scheme in the Far East.

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Le Carré, John, 193 1-. The looking glass war. New York: Dell, [1965]. Focuses on a former military espionage department in London and its attempts to train an agent for a mission in East Germany.

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Le Carré, John, 193 1 -. The night manager: a novel. 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1993. With the Cold War over, all the spies have come home to fight terrorists, drug smugglers, and arms dealers. These new villains are even more ruthless than their communist predecessors and driven by greed, not ideology.

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Le Carré, John, 193 1 -. The Russia house. 1st ed. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1989. Barley Blair suddenly possesses a sheaf of military secrets that could profoundly alter the course of history. British Intelligence wants him to find out who gave him the documents and why.

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Le Carré, John, 193 1 -. Smiley's people. 1st trade ed. New York: Knopf, 1980, c1979. British intelligence agent George Smiley and his mortal enemy Karla, a Soviet agent, clash in a final confrontation.

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LeCarré, John, 1931-. The spy who came in from the cold. New York: Dell, [1965]. A veteran spy wants to "come in from the cold" to retirement. He undertakes one last assignment in which he pretends defection and provides the enemy with sufficient evidence to label their leader a double agent.

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Le Carré, John, 193 1 -. Small town in Germany. New York: Coward-McCann, c1968. London' s security officer Alan Turner is sent to Bonn to find a missing man, as Germany's past, present and future threaten to collide in a nightmare of violence.

895.91 G.344 The Ivory comb. [A novel about the Vietnam War.] South Viet Nam: Giai Phong, 1967.

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Bao Ninh. The sorrow of war: a novel of North Vietnam. New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. Written from the perspective of a North Vietnamese, the story chronicles a Vietcong infantryman’s ten-year separation from his family.