The Vietnam War (1945–1975)

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Caputo, Philip. A Rumor of War. New York: Owl Books, 1996.

Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest. New York: Fawcett, 1993.

Herr, Michael. Dispatches. New York: Vintage, 1991.

Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History. New York: Penguin, 1997.

Kennedy, David M., Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas A. Bailey. The American Pageant. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

O’Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. New York: Broadway, 1998.

Spector, Ronald H. After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam. New York: Vintage, 1994.

Summers, Anthony. The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon. New York: Penguin, 2000.

Young, Marilyn B. The Vietnam Wars: 19451990 . New York: HarperCollins, 1991.

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