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Books About the War>Non-Fiction>Autobiographies/Biographies

Anti-War Protestors, Conscientious Objectors
Autobiographies, Biographies, Oral Histories--A Selected Bibliography

Balaban, John. Remembering Heaven's Face: A Moral Witness in Vietnam. New York: Poseidon Press, 1991.

Berrigan, Daniel. Night Flight to Hanoi: War Diary with 11 Poems. New York: Macmillan, 1968.

Berrigan, Philip with Fred A. Wilcox. Fighting the Lamb's War: Skirmishes with the American Empire; the Autobiography of Philip Berrrigan. Monroe, Me.: Common Courage Press, 1996.

Chepesiuk, Ron. Sixties Radicals, Then and Now: Candid Conversations with Those Who Shaped the Era. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1995.

Clinton, James W. The Loyal Opposition: Americans in North Vietnam, 1965-1972. Niwot, Colo.: University Press of Colorado, 1995.

Collier, Peter and David Horowitz. Second Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back at the Sixties. Lanham, Md.: Madison Books, 1989.

Ellsberg, Daniel. Papers on the War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972.

_____. Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. New York: Viking, 2002.

Freedman, Suzanne. Clay v. United States: Muhammad Ali Objects to War. Springfield, N.J.: Enslow, 1997.

Gaylin, Willard. In the Service of Their Country: War Resisters in Prison. New York: Viking, 1970.

Gioglio, Gerald R. Days of Decision: An Oral History of Conscientious Objectors in the Military During the Vietnam War. Trenton, N. J.: Broken Rifle Press, 1989.

Gottlieb, Sherry Gershon. Hell No, We Won't Go!: Resisting the Draft During the Vietnam War. New York: Viking, 1991.

Halstead, Fred. GI's Speak Out Against the War: The Case of the Ft. Jackson 8. New York: Pathfinder, 1970.

_____. Out Now! A Participant's Account of the American Movement Against the Vietnam War. New York: Monad Press, 1978.

Harris, David. Our War: What We Did in Vietnam and What It Did To Us. New York: Times Books, 1996.

Hershberger, Mary. Traveling to Vietnam: American Peace Activists and the War. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1998.

Holzer, Henry Mark. Aid and Comfort: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2002.

Hurwitz, Ken. Marching Nowhere. New York: Norton, 1971.

Jezer, Marty. Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992.

Kurlansky, Mark. 1968: The Year That Rocked the World. New York: Ballantine, 2004.

Lynd, Alice. We Won't Go: Personal Accounts of War Objectors. Boston: Beacon Press, 1968.

Lynd, Staughton and Tom Hayden. The Other Side. New York: New American Library, 1966.

Mailer, Norman. The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History. New York: New American Library, 1968.

Miller, Melissa and Phil M. Shenk. The Path of Most Resistance: Stories of Mennonite Conscientious Objectors Who Did Not Cooperate with the Vietnam War Draft. Scottsdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1982.

Moore, Joy Hofacher. Ted Studebaker: A Man Who Loved Peace. Scottsdale, Penn.: Herald Press, 1987.

Nicosia. Gerald. Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans Movement. New York: Crown, 2001.

Polner, Murray and Jim O'Grady. Disarmed and Dangerous: The Radical Lives and Times of Daniel and Philip Berrigan. New York: Basic Books, 1997.

Raskin, Jonah. For the Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie Hoffman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

Reston, James, Jr. The Amnesty of John David Herndon. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973.

Robbins, Mary Susannah. Against the War in Vietnam: Writings by Activists. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1999.

Rosenblatt, Roger. Coming Apart: A Memoir of the Harvard Riots of 1969. New York: Little, Brown, 1997.

Simons, Donald L. I Refuse: Memories of a Vietnam War Objector. Trenton, N.J.: Broken Rifle Press, 1991.

Stacewicz, Richard. Winter Soldiers: An Oral History of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. New York: Twayne, 1997.

Taylor, Ethel Barol. We Made a Difference: My Personal Journey with Women Strike for Peace. Philadelphia: Camino, 1998.

Tollefson, James W. The Strength Not to Fight: An Oral History of Conscientious Objectors of the Vietnam War. Boston, Little, Brown, 1993.

Whitmore, Terry, as told to Richard Weber. Memphis, Nam, Sweden: The Autobiography of a Black American Exile. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971.


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