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Beschloss, Michael. Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson Secret White Houseb Tapes, 1964-1965. New York: Simon and Shuster, 2001.
Blankfort, Michael. The Big Yankee: the Story of Evans Carlson and theRaiders. Boston: Little Brown, 1947.
Boettcher, Thomas D. Vietnam. The Valor and the Sorrow, From the Home Front to the Front Lines in Words and Pictures. Boston: Little Brown, 1985.
Clausewitz, Carl von. On War, Indexed Edition, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.
Corson, William R. The Betrayal. New York: Norton, 1968.
Currey, Cecil B. Victory at any Cost: The Genius of Vietnam Vo Nguyen Giap. Washington, DC: Brassey, 1997.
Dallek, Robert. Flawed Giant, Lyndon B. Johnson, 1960-1973. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Fall, Bernard B. Street Without Joy. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole, 1961.
Ford, Harold P. CIA and the Vietnam Policy Makers: Three Episodes 1962-1968. Washington, DC: CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence, 1998.
Herring, George C. ed. The Pentagon Papers Abridged Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1993.
Lanning, Michael Lee, and Dan Cragg. Inside the VC and NVA: The Real Story of North Vietnam Armed Forces. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1992.
Lewy, Gunter. America in Vietnam: New York: Oxford University Press, 1978.
Lind, Michael. Vietnam: The Necessary War: A Reinterpretation of America Most Disastrous Military Conflict. New York: Free Press, 1999.
McNamara, Robert S., with Brian VanDerMark. In Retrospect: the Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. New York: Times Books, 1995.
Nguyen Khac Vien. Vietnam: a Long History. (rev) Hanoi: Gioi Publishers, 1993.
Patti, Archimedes L.A. Why Vietnam? Prelude to America Albatross. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
Olson, James S. and Randy Roberts. Where the Domino Fell: America and Vietnam 1945 to 1990. New York: St. Martins, 1991.
Pike, Douglas. PAVN: People’s Army of Vietnam. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1986.
Sorley, Lewis. Honorable Warrior: General Harold K. Johnson and the Ethics of Command. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1998.
Stetler, Russell. ed. The Military Art of People War: Selected Writings of Vo Nguyen Giap. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1970.
Shulimson, Jack. U.S. Marines in Vietnam: an Expanding War, 1966. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982.
Shulimson, Jack, and Maj Charles M. Johnson, USMC. U.S. Marines in Vietnam: The Landing and the Buildup, 1965. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978.
Shultz, Richard H. Jr. The Secret War Against Hanoi: Kennedy and Johnson Use of Spies, Saboteurs, and Covert Warriors in North Vietnam. New York: Harper Collins, 1999.
Summers, Harry G., Jr. On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1982.
Taylor, Sandra C. Vietnamese Women at War: Fighting for Ho Chi Minh and Revolution. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1999.
Teller, Maj Gary L., USMC, LtCol Lane Rogers, USMC, and V. Keith Fleming, Jr. U.S. Marines in Vietnam: Fighting the North Vietnamese, 1967. Washington, DC: History and Museums Division, Headquarters, Marine Corps, 1984.
ARTICLES
Arnold, Hugh M. “Official Justifications for Americ’s Role in Indochina,” Asian Affairs, Sep/Oct 1975.
McCutcheon, LtGen Keith B., USMC, “Marine Aviation in Vietnam 1962-1970,” The Marines in Vietnam, 1954-1773: An Anthology and Annotated Bibliography, 2d ed. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1985.
Peatross, Oscar F., “Victory at Van Tuong: An Application of Doctrine,” Annapolis, MD: U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, September 1967.
Schell, Jonathan. “The Military Half: An Account of the Destruction in Quang Ngai and Quang Tin,” Reporting Vietnam, Part One: American Journalism 1959-1969. New York: The American Library, 1998.
Tran Nhu, Col Tiep, Vietnamese Army. “Van Tuong—Mot Chien Cong Oanh Liet,” (“Van-Tuong, A Glorious Victory”). Title and publishing data of book unknown.
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