Related Books of Interest

Books by Tim O’Brien

If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home (1973)

Northern Lights (1975)

Where Have You Gone Charming Billy? (1975)

Going After Cacciato (1978)

The Nuclear Age (1985)

The Things They Carried (1990)

In the Lake of the Woods (1994)
Tomcat in Love (1998)

July, July (2002)

Fiction titles

The 13th Valley (1982)

by John Del Vecchio

The Barracks Thief (1990)

by Tobias Wolff

Buffalo Boy and Geronimo (2006)

by James Janko

Dog Soldiers (1997)

by Robert Stone

Girl by the Road at Night: A Novel of Vietnam (2010)

by David Rabe

 

A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain (1993)

by Robert Olen Butler

The Green Berets (1965)

by Robin Moore

In Country (2005)

by Bobbie Ann Mason

Johnny Got His Gun (1939)

by Dalton Trumbo

Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War (2010)

by Karl Marlantes

The Quiet American (1955)

by Graham Greene

The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam (1996)

by Bao Ninh

Memoirs

Awakening of a Foot Soldier: A Journal of Liberation from the Suffering of War (2006)

by John M. Healey

Born on the Fourth of July (1976)

by Ron Kovic

Felon for Peace: The Memoir of a Vietnam-Era Draft Resister (2004)

by Jerry Elmer

The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War (2007)

by Frederick Downs, Jr.

A Rumor of War (1977)

by Philip Caputo

A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath (1986)

by Truong Nhu Tang

Warriors: An Infantryman's Memoir of Vietnam

by Robert Tonsetic (2004)

Non-Fiction

Dispatches (1977)

by Michael Herr

A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975 (1999)

by Robert D. Schulzinger

Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora (2005) (essays)

by Andrew Lam

The Spy Who Loved Us: The Vietnam War and Pham Xuan An's Dangerous Game (2009)

by Thomas A. Bass

Vietnam: A History (1997)

by Stanley Karnow

Children’s/Young Adult

10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War (2007)

by Philip Caputo

Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy (2008)

by Andrea Warren

In Country (2005)

by Bobbie Ann Mason

Shooting the Moon (2009)

by Francis O’Roark Dowell

Vietnam War (1993)

by John Devaney

Related Films of Interest

Apocalypse Now(1979), directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Birdy (1984), directed by Alan Parker

Born on the Fourth of July (1989), directed by Oliver Stone

*Casualties of War(1989), directed by Brian De Palma

*Coming Home(1978), directed byHal Ashby

*The Deer Hunter(1978), directed by Michael Cimino

*Dogfight(1991), directed byNancy Savoca

*TheFog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003), directed by Errol Morris

*Full MetalJacket(1987), directed by Stanley Kubrick

*Good Morning, Vietnam(1987), directed by Barry Levinson

*The Killing Fields (1984), directed by Roland Joffé

*The Messenger (2009), directed by Owen Moverman

*Platoon (1986), directed by Oliver Stone

*Poster Girl(2010), directed Sara Neeson (short documentary)

Rescue Dawn (2007) by Werner Herzog

A Soldier’s Sweetheart (1998), directed by Thomas Michael Donnelly, based on Tim O’Brien’s story “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”: excerpts can be found on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT7kj60pQ6c

*We Were Soldiers(2002), directed by Randall Wallace

*Films being screened as part of The Big Read