Books in the
Prep Library on War and Peace in a Dangerous World
Internet Links:
Civil Rights
War in General:
303.6 F.95-a
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.
303.6
K.24-w
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.
320.01 K.14-w
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.
904.7 K.11-o
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.
909.08 T 79-m
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:
303.48
L.57-s
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.
327.109
F.73-h
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.
327.17 M.45-w
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.
327.47 Sh.6-a
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.
327.47073 R.36-c
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.
327.73 AC.4-p
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.
327.73 H.12-w
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.
327.73 K.36-a
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.
327.73
L.49-n
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.
327.73
M.46-s
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].
327.7304
Sw.5-s
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.
327.73047
B.38-a
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.
327.73047
L.97-a
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.
327.7305
Sch.8-t
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.
Ref
909.82 C.67-f
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.
Ref
909.82 H.62-s
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.
909.82
In.4-c
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.
909.82
Is.1 -c
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.
909.82
L.96-n
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.
940.55
M.36-s
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.
940.55
W.58-f
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.
940.559
G. 19-h
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.
943.1554
P.2 I -b
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.
951.05
C.42-m
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.
972.91
Sh.5-c
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.
973.922 W.43-m
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:
323
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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.
342.73
F.22-t
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.
355.2
L.99-w
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.
378.1
H.36-p
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.
616.85
Sh.2-a
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.
959.704
H.12-n
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.
973.92
Ay.2-f
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:
949.6
G.47-b
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.
949.7
D.7 I -b
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.
949.7
R.44-s
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.
949.702
Ow.2-b
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.
949.703
J. 88-k
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.
949.703
R.26-r
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.
949.703
T.15-t
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.
949.71
D.11-w
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.
949.71
F.92-k
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.
949.71
M.29-k
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.
949.71
M.45-b
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.
949.742
C.54-b
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:
616.89
Sh.4-w
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.
951.9
B.45-k
Berger, Carl. The
Korea knot: a military-political history. Rev. ed. Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, [1965, c1964].
951.904
B.21-f
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.
951.904
C.28-k
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.
951.904
H.19-b
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.
951.904
H.52-k
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.
951.904
H.67-c
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.
951.704
L.49-b
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.
951.904
W.56-w
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.
951.9042
F.32-t
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].
951.9042
T.59-n
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:
356.167
W.15-a
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.
955.054
B.38-d
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.
956.704
D.86-g
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.
956.704
N. 16-p
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.
956.7043
A1.5-w
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.
956.7044
H.61-n
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.
Ref
956.7044 Sch.9-e
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.
956.7044
Y.5-p
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
327.73
K.96-u
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.
956.1
K.62-c
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.
958.104
C.77-u
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.
958.104
G.87-r
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.
958.104
R.18-t
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:
355.02
B.38-e
Beckett,
I. F. W. (Ian Frederick William). Encyclopedia of
guerilla warfare. New York :
Facts on File, 2001.
363.179
Sch.7-a
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.
363.179
W.64-w
Wilcox,
Fred. Waiting for an army to die : the tragedy of Agent Orange. Cabin John, MD : Seven Locks Press, c1989.
959.704
Al.5-n
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.
959.704
B.17-n
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.
959.704
B.43 -v
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].
959.704
C. 17-r
Caputo,
Philip. A rumor of war. New York: Ballantine Books, 1994, c1977. Grunt's-eye-view of the American
experience in Vietnam.
959.704
C.25-f
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.
959.704
C.66-v
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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D.77-a Doyle, Edward, 1949-. America takes over. Boston, MA: Boston Pub.
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D.79-a Draper, Theodore, 1912-. Abuse of power. New York: Viking Press,
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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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issues of the war, and an emotive picture of Vietnam.
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Hagan, John, 1946-. Northern passage :
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rather than serve in the U.S. armed forces.
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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.
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H.41-s Herbert, Anthony. Soldier. [1st ed.]. New York: Holt, Rinehart
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Journalist
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Kaiser,
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responsibility for the Vietnam War to those military and foreign-policy
specialists in the Eisenhower administration who believed that Communist
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Kallen,
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Convention, Woodstock, the Kent State shootings, the draft lottery, and the
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elsewhere that originally caused the war and brought it to an end.