The Things They Carried: Adult Booklist
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War Letters : Extraordinary Correspondence From American Wars by Carroll, Andrew (ed.)

Notes: A fascinating collection of previously unpublished letters from the Civil War up through the more recent conflict in Bosnia

ISBN: 0743202945

Publisher: Scribner

Published: 2001

Callnumber: 355.0092 W195L

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Hedges, Chris

Notes: National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction finalist.

ISBN: 1586480499

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2003

Callnumber: 355.02 H358w

Vietnam, a History by Karnow, Stanley

Notes: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

ISBN: 0140265473

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1997

Callnumber: 959.7043 K147v5

Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation by MacPherson, Myra

Notes: The Philadelphia Inquirer said, "A brilliant and necessary book... this stunning depiction of Vietnam's bitter fruit is calculated to agitateeven the most complacent American."

ISBN: 0385470169

Publisher: Doubleday

Published: 1984

Callnumber: 973.923 M242L2

We Were Soldiers Once...and Young by Moore, Harold G.

Notes: This depiction of the Ia Drang battle in 1965 was made into a film with Mel Gibson

ISBN: 0060975768

Publisher: Random House

Published: 1992

Callnumber: 959.7043 M783w2

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Sheehan, Neil

Notes: Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

ISBN: 0679724141

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 1989

Callnumber: 959.7043 V334s2

Home Before Morning: the Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam by Van Devanter, Lynda

Notes: Powerful, heart-wrenching account of a nurse's tour of duty.

ISBN: 0446309621

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press

Published: 2001

Callnumber: 959.7043 V286h