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For younger readers | Ho Chi Minh | Southeast Asia: History and Culture | Vietnam | Vietnam War

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For younger readers

Hansen, Ole Steen. Vietnam. Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1996. For readers in grades 5 to 8.

O'Connor, Karen. Vietnam. Lerner, 1999. For readers in grades 3 to 5.

Seay, Audrey. Vietnam. 2nd ed. Benchmark, 1996. For readers in grades 3 to 6.

Willis, Terri. Vietnam. Children's Press, 2002. In the Enchantment of the World series, for readers in grades 4 to 8.

Ho Chi Minh

Bui Tin. Following Ho Chi Minh: The Memoirs of a North Vietnamese Colonel. University of Hawaii Press, 1995.

Halberstam, David. Ho. McGraw-Hill, 1986. Brief portrait, plus analysis of Vietnamese nationalism.

Lacouture, Jean. Ho Chi Minh. Random House, 1968. Life and times of the Vietnamese revolutionary.

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Southeast Asia: History and Culture

Barnes, Gina. The Rise of Civilization in the East: The Archeology of China, Korea and Japan. Thames & Hudson, 1999. Ancient history and archaeology of Southeast Asia.

Cox, Christopher R. Chasing the Dragon: Into the Heart of the Golden Triangle. Holt, 1996. Portrait of the illegal drug trade in Asia.

Gibney, Frank. The Pacific Century: America and Asia in a Changing World. Scribner, 1992. Survey of modern East Asia.

Girard-Gesian, Maud, and others. Trans. J. A. Underwood. Art of Southeast Asia. Abrams, 1998. More than 250 illustrations accompanied by text.

Guilick, John, ed. Adventurous Women in South-East Asia: Six Lives. Oxford University Press, 1995. Fascinating accounts of the experiences of six 19th-century women in Southeast Asia.

Hall, D. G. E. A History of South East Asia. St. Martin's, 1993. A modern classic.

Keay, John. Empire's End: A History of the Far East from Colonization to Hong Kong. Scribner, 1997. Historical account of the decline of Western colonial powers in Asia.

Leifer, Michael. Dictionary of the Modern Politics of South-East Asia. Routledge, 1995. Begins with brief essays on ten Southeast Asian countries, followed by useful entries covering each region's history, personalities, and institutions.

Osborne, Milton. Southeast Asia: An Introductory History. Allen & Unwin, 1998. General survey presents the region as a coherent whole.

Pluvier, Jan M. Historical Atlas of South-East Asia. Brill, 1995. Well-written presentation of complex data. Includes 64 maps and 72 period descriptions of history.

Reid, Anthony. Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680. Yale University Press, 1990-1995. Continuities in the economic and cultural history of Southeast Asia.

Sardesai, D. R. Southeast Asia: Past & Present. Westview, 1997. Southeast Asia from ancient to modern times.

Schmidt, Karl J. An Atlas and Survey of South Asian History. Sharpe, 1995. Includes 96 maps.

Viesti, Joseph F., and Diane Hall. Celebrate! in Southeast Asia. Lothrop, 1996. Portrays customs surrounding 11 Southeast Asian festivals; for younger readers.

Vietnam

Vietnam: In Pictures. Lerner, 1994. For middle school readers.

Broyles, William, Jr. Brothers in Arms: A Journey from War to Peace. Knopf, Reprint, University of Texas Press, 1986. 1996. Ex-Marine returns to Vietnam.

Condominas, Georges We Have Eaten the Forest: The Story of a Montagnard Village in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Hill & Wang, Reprint, Kodansha, 1977. 1994.

Dillon, Katherine V., and Donald M. Goldstein. The Vietnam War: The Story and Photographs. Brassey's, 1999. An illustrated survey of the war that includes American and Vietnamese photographs.

Fall, Bernard B. Street Without Joy. Schocken, 1994. History of revolution in Vietnam and French defeat; originally published in 1961.

Fitzgerald, Frances. Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. Vintage, 1989. History and culture of Vietnam and analysis of American conflict; won a Pulitzer prize.

Kamm, Henry. Dragon Ascending: Vietnam and the Vietnamese. Arcade, 1996. Readable, insightful analysis of Vietnam and its people, in cities and in tiny hamlets.

Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History. Penguin, 1997. Classic review of Vietnamese history with special emphasis on the Vietnam War; companion volume to a PBS series on the Vietnam War.

Kolko, Gabriel. Vietnam: Anatomy of a Peace. Routledge, 1997. Vietnam since the end of the war with the United States.

Langguth, A. J. Our Vietnam: The War, 1954-1975. Simon & Schuster, 2000. An account of the role of United States in Vietnam.

Summers, Harry G. The Vietnam War Almanac. Presidio, 1999. A concise guide to the Vietnam War.

Templer, Robert. Shadows and Wind: A View of Modern Vietnam. Viking, 1998. Important insights into the Vietnamese point of view.

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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