Vietnam War Bibliography:

Bibliographic

Lester H. Brune and Richard D. Burns, America and the Indochina Wars, 1945-1990: A Bibliographical Guide. Claremont, CA: Regina, 1992. 286 pp.

Richard D. Burns & Milton Leitenberg, The Wars in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, 1945-1982: A Bibliographic Guide. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1984.

John H.M. Chen, Vietnam: A Comprehensive Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1973. 314 pp.

Stephen B.T. Chun, Linebacker I and II: Air Strategy [bibliography]. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Library, 2003.

Stephen B.T. Chun, Rolling Thunder Air Strategy [bibliography]. Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Library, 2003.

Merritt Clifton, et. al., Those who were There: Eyewitness Accounts of the War in Southeast Asia, 1956-1975, & Aftermath. Paradise, CA: Dust Books, 1984. 297 pp. Not actually limited to accounts written by eyewitnesses.

Helen Cordell, Laos. World Bibliographical Series, No. 133. Oxford and Santa Barbara: Clio, 1991. xxxvi, 217 pp. The fairly lengthy description of each item listed means that there are fewer items than would usually be in a bibliography of this length. The full text is available online if you browse the Internet through an institution that is affiliated with netLibrary.

Michael Cotter, Vietnam, a Guide to Reference Sources. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1977. 272pp

Chantal Descours-Gatin and Hugues Villiers, under the direction of Georges Boudarel, Pierre Brocheux, and Daniel Hémery, Guide de recherches sur le Vietnam: Bibliographies, archives et bibliothèques de France. Paris: l'Harmattan, 1983. 259 pp.

Michel Désiré, La Campagne d'Indochine (1945-1954): Bibliographie. Chateau de Vincennes: Service Historique, État-major de l'Armée de Terre, 1971-1977. Nominally four volumes, but in actual physical terms there are five (what is nominally volume 3 is two actual physical volumes). Some of the individual volumes have volume titles and some do not.
Vol. 1. Avant 1945. (130 pp.)
Vol. 2. (149 pp.) Contains two sections: "Le cadre geographique, économique, et humain du conflit" (pp. 3-17) and "Les conditions politiques et diplomatiques de la campaigne d'Indochine" (pp. 18-149).
Vol. 3. La campagne Francaise d'Indochine. (160, 120 pp.)
Vol. 4. (231 pp.) Contains two sections: "La campagne Viet-Minh" (pp. 2-130) and "La fin de la présence Francaise et la relève Américaine" (pp. 131-227).

Judith W. Heaney, "Vietnam: A Bibliography." Office of Vietnam Affairs, Agency for International Development, January 1, 1966. 25 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University. Appended at the end of this .pdf is a "A Short Select Bibliography of Books on Viet-Nam and the War." 5 pp., apparently compiled in 1967 or 1968 and not visibly related to the first bibliography (not necessarily compiled by Heaney or in AID).

Cecil C. Hobbs et. al., Indochina: A Bibliography of the Land and People. Washington: Library of Congress, 1956, reprinted New York: Greenwood, 1969. 367 pp.

Helen Jarvis, Cambodia. World Bibliographical Series, No. 200. Oxford and Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1997. lxiv, 412 pp. The fairly lengthy description of each item listed means that there are fewer items than would usually be in a bibliography of this length. The full text is available online if you browse the Internet through an institution that is affiliated with netLibrary.

Jean Kemble, The United States and the Vietnam War: A Guide to Materials at the British Library. London: The British Library, n.d. 69 pp. Full text available online. This bibliography is focused on Americans and the United States, more than on the Vietnamese or even on U.S. actions in Vietnam.

Milton Leitenberg and Richard D. Burns, The Vietnam Conflict: Its Geographical Dimensions, Political Traumas, & Military Developments. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1973.

Greta E. Marlatt, "Researching the Vietnam Conflict Through U.S. Archival Sources," Journal of Government Information, 22:3 (1995), pp. 195-226. The text is available online, at least to some users (I don't think this site is open to all Internet users) at the Journal of Government Information web site.

David G. Marr with Kristine Alilunas-Rodgers, Vietnam. World Bibliographical Series, No. 147. Oxford and Santa Barbara: Clio, 1992. lxxviii, 394 pp. The fairly lengthy description of each item listed means that there are fewer items than would usually be in a bibliography of this length. The full text is available online if you browse the Internet through an institution that is affiliated with netLibrary.

Jacob Neufeld, Kenneth Schaffel, and Anne E. Shermer, Guide to Air Force Historical Literature. Washington, D.C.: Office of Air Force History, 1985. ix, 243 pp. This bibliography was declassified in 2008, and is now available online. Many of the works listed in it were originally classified, some as high as Top Secret; I have no idea how many of these have been declassified.

James S. Olson, ed., The Vietnam War: Handbook of the Literature and Research. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993. xii, 516 pp. The United States in the Vietnam War, 1954-1975: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography. New York: Routledge, 2007. xi, 377 pp.

Louis A. Peake, The United States in the Vietnam War, 1954-1975: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1986. xx, 406 pp. Second edition The United States in the Vietnam War, 1954-1975: A Selected Annotated Bibliography of English-Language Sources. New York: Routledge, 2007. xi, 377 pp.

Phan Thien Chau, Vietnamese Communism: A Research Bibliography. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1977.

Alain Ruscio, La premiere guerre d'Indochine (1945-1954): bibliographie. Paris: l'Harmattan, 1987. 286 pp.

Alain Ruscio, La guerre "française" d'Indochine (1945-1954), Les sources de la connaissance: Bibliographie, filmographie, documents divers. Paris: Les Indes Savantes, 2002. 1174 pp. Includes a chronology (pp. 1059-1080) and useful brief biographical sketches (pp. 1081-1094).

John C. Schafer, Vietnamese Perspectives on the War in Viet Nam: an Annotated Bibliography of Works in English. Lac Viet #17. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 1997. 135 pp. A pre-publication copy has also been placed online at Yale University.

Diana Simpson, Vietnamese Conflict: Lessons Learned: Selected References. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Air University Library, 1990. 14 pp.

Carl Singleton, Vietnam Studies: An Annotated Bibliography. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1997. 336 pp.

Christopher L. Sugnet and John T. Hickey, with Robert Crispino, Vietnam War Bibliography: Selected from Cornell University's Echols Collection. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books (D.C. Heath), 1983. 572 pp.

"University of California Library Holdings on Vietnam." n.p., n.d. (appears to have been compiled in 1966). 47 pp. The text has been placed on-line in the Virtual Vietnam Archive of the Vietnam Project, at Texas Tech University.

Sandra M. Wittman, Writing about Vietnam: A Bibliography of the Literature of the Vietnam Conflict. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1989. Gives brief descriptions of most items. Mostly covers fiction, poetry, etc., but the section titled "Personal Narratives/Biographies", 67pp., 291 items, includes a wide range of non-fiction, not just personal narratives and biographies.

The Reference Branch of the U.S. Army Military History Institute placed online (in a slightly unusual format, as MS Word documents rather than .html or .pdf documents) a number of bibliographies relevant to the Vietnam War. But a later reorganization of Army web pages invalidated the links below, and I have not yet managed to locate new links to these items:

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