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Personal Accounts, Biographies, Oral Histories--A Selected Bibliography

Berry, John Stevens. Those Gallant Men: On Trial in Vietnam. Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1984.

Borton, Lady. Sensing the Enemy: An American Woman Among the Boat People of Vietnam. Garden City, N.Y.: Dial, 1984.

Epp, Karen Ross. With Love Stan: A Soldier's Letters from Vietnam to the World. Bloomington, Ind. : AuthorHouse, 2006. Available from Amazon.com.

Garms, David. With the Dragon's Children. New York: Exposition Press, 1973.

Graham, Cork. The Bamboo Chest: An Adventure in Healing the Trauma of War. e-book Bamboo Chest, 2002.

Keenan, Barbara Mullen. Every Effort. New York: St. Martin's, 1986.

Lamensdorf, Jean Debelle. Write Home For Me: A Red Cross Women In Vietnam. Milsons Point, NSW : Random House Australia, 2006. Available from jlamensdorf@comcast.net

Luce, Don, and John Sommer. Vietnam: The Unheard Voices. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1969.

Miller, Carolyn P. Captured. Chappaqua, NY: Christian Herald Books, 1977.

Mullen, Peg. Unfriendly Fire: A Mother's Memoir. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1995.

Noel, Chris, with Bill Tredwell. Matter of Survival: The "War" Jane Never Saw. Boston: Branden, 1987.

Noel, Reuben, and Nancy Noel. Saigon for a Song: The True Story of a Vietnam Gig to Remember. Phoenix: USC Press, 1987.

Novak, Marian Faye. Lonely Girls With Burning Eyes: A Wife Recalls Her Husband's Journey Home from Vietnam. Boston: Little, Brown, 1991.

Peters, Daniel Barth. Through Isaac's Eyes: Crossing the Cultures, Coming of Age, and the Bond Between Father and Son. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1996.

Schwarz, George W., Jr. April Fools: An American Remembers South Viet Nam's Final Days. Baltimore, Md.: AmErica House, 2001.

Spiller, Harry. Death Angel: A Vietnam Memoir of a Bearer of Death Messages to Families. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1992.

_____. Scars of Vietnam: Personal Accounts by Veterans and Their Families. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1994.

Tanham, George K. War Without Guns: American Civilians in Rural Vietnam. New York: Praeger, 1966.

Taylor, Rosemary and Wende Grant. Orphans of War: Work with the Abandoned Children of Vietnam, 1967-1975. London: Collins, 1988.

Trussoni, Danielle. Falling Through the Earth. New York: Hnery Holt, 2006.

Wain, Barry. The Refused: The Agony of the Indochina Refugees. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981.

Wesseling, Louis. Fuelling the War. London: Tauris (St. Martin's Press), 2000.

Wilson, Jim. The Sons of Bardstown: 25 Years of Vietnam in an American Town. New York: Crown, 1994.

Zacharias, Karen Spears. Hero Mama: A Daughter Remembers the Father She Lost in Vietnam--and the Mother Who Held Her Family Together. New York: Morrow, 2005.

For additional information, see Wittman, Sandra. Writing About Vietnam: A Bibliography of the Literature of the Vietnam Conflict. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989.