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For younger readers

Devaney, John. The Vietnam War. Franklin Watts, 1992. For readers in grades 3 to 6.

Gay, Kathlyn, and Martin Gay. Vietnam War. Twenty-First Century, 1996. For middle school readers.

Kent, Deborah. The Vietnam War: "What Are We Fighting For?" Enslow, 1994. For readers in grades 5 to 7.

Yancey, Diane, ed. The Vietnam War. Greenhaven., 2001. In the Turning Points in World History series, for readers in grades 7 to 12.

Vietnam War

Halberstram, David. The Best and the Brightest. Fawcett, 1993. Classic saga of how America became involved in the Vietnam conflict.

Herring, George. America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975. McGraw Hill, 2001. Why the United States entered the war, and why the war went on for so long.

Kutler, Stanley I., ed. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. Macmillan, 1997. Fair-minded articles detail the major concepts of this important era in history.

Langguth, A.J. Our Vietnam/Nuoc Viet TA: A History of the War 1954-1975. Simon & Schuster, 2000. A narrative from a New York Times journalist who covered the war.

Moore, Harold G., and Joseph L. Galloway. We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang—The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam. HarperCollins, 2002. A gripping account of infantry combat in a pivotal battle, one that opened the massive ground war in Vietnam.

O'Nan, Stewart, ed. The Vietnam Reader: The Definitive Collection of American Fiction and Nonfiction on the War. Doubleday, 1998. An anthology of poetry, fiction and non-fiction depicting the war and its aftermath.

Page, Tim, and others. Another Vietnam: Pictures of the War from the Other Side. National Geographic, 2001. Compelling images from North Vietnamese photographers reveal a war never seen on America's televisions.

Sheehan, Neil. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. Random House, 1988. This 1989 Pulitzer Prize-winning work presents a view of the war from the perspective of an American officer.

Tucker, Spencer C., ed. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History. Oxford University Press, 2001. A solid single-volume reference. Suitable for high school readers.

Wallace, Terry. Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans. Random House, Reprint, Ballantine, 1984. 1989.

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