The Vietnam War

Explore essential works on the Vietnam War and its aftermath, selected by RCL editors. Resources for College Libraries (RCL) features core titles for academic libraries, curated by Choice/ACRL subject specialists. In this list, preview a selection of the 90,000+ titles available at rclweb.net.

Updated June 30, 2025
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Vietnam's American War: A History
Asselin, Pierre
Paper Book
Communist forces in the Vietnam War lost most battles and suffered disproportionally higher casualties than the United States and its allies throughout the conflict. The ground war in South Vietnam and the air war in the North were certainly important in shaping the fates of the victors and losers,...
Nothing ever dies : Vietnam and the memory of war
Nguyen, Viet Thanh
Paper Book
Nothing Ever Dies, Viet Thanh Nguyen writes. All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of a conflict that lives on in the collective memory...
Embers of war : the fall of an empire and the making of America's Vietnam
Logevall, Fredrik
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE   Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work that will forever change your understanding of how and why America went to war in Vietnam. Tapping newly accessible...
The "uncensored war" : the media and Vietnam
Hallin, Daniel C.
Paper Book
Vietnam was America's most divisive and unsuccessful foreign war. It was also the first to be televised and the first of the modern era fought without military censorship. From the earliest days of the Kennedy-Johnson escalation right up to the American withdrawal, and even today, the media's role...
The sorrow of war : a novel of North Vietnam
Bao Ninh.
Paper Book
The Sorrow of War is the first novel of the Vietnam War told from the North Vietnamese perspective. Readers follow Kien as a young soldier and, later, as a writer struggling to come to grips with the savageries he has witnessed. Takes its place alongside the greatest war novel of the century, All...
America's longest war : the United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975
Herring, George C.
Paper Book

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