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Vietnam War Short Stories
A Selected Bibliography of Short Story Collections

Anderson, Donald, ed. Aftermath: An Anthology of Post-Vietnam Fiction. New York: Henry Holt, 1995.

Balfour, Vivian Vie, ed. The Perimeter of Light: Short Fiction and Other Writing About the Vietnam War. Minneapolis: New Rivers Press, 1992.

Butler, Robert Olen. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. New York: Henry Holt, 1992. (Highly Recommended)

Che Lan Vien. The Fire Blazes. Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1965.

Crapser, William. Remains: Stories of Vietnam. Old Chatham, N.Y.: Sachem Press, 1988.

Dann, Jean Van Buren, and Jack Dann. In the Field of Fire. New York: Tor, 1987. (Highly Recommended)

De Grazia, Emilio. Enemy Country. St. Paul, Minn.: New Rivers Press, 1984.

Dell, Diana J. A Saigon Party and Other Vietnam War Short Stories. Princeton, N.J.: Xlibris, 1998.

Distant Stars. Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1976.

Duncan, H. G. Brown Side Out: More Marine Corps Sea-Stories. San Diego: James H. Gregory, 1983.

Hathaway, Stephen. A Kind of Redemption. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University, 1991.

Henschel, Lee, Jr. Short Stories of Vietnam. Guthrie, Minn.: Guthrie Publishing Company, 1981.

The Ivory Comb. South Vietnam: Giai Phong Publishing House, 1968.

Jenks, Tom. Soldiers and Civilians: Americans at War and at Home. New York: Bantam Books, 1986.

Jones, Thom. Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine: Stories. Boston: Little, Brown, 1999.

Karlin, Wayne, Basil T. Paquet, and Larry Rottmann, eds. Free Fire Zone: Short Stories by Vietnam Veterans. Coventry, Conn.: 1st Casualty Press, 1973; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973.

Klinkowitz, Jerome, and John Somer, eds. Writing Under Fire: Stories of the Vietnam War. New York: Dell, 1978.

McDonald, Walter. A Band of Brothers: Stories from Vietnam. Lubbock, Tex.: Texas Tech University Press, 1989.

Mayer, Tom. The Weary Falcon. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971.

Moore, Robin. The Green Berets. New York: Crown, 1965.

Mort, John. Tanks: Short Fiction. Kansas City, Mo.: BkMk Press, University of Missouri, 1986.

The Mountain Trail. Hanoi: Vietnam Women's Union, 1970.

Nhat Hanh, Thich. The Moon Bamboo. Berkeley, Calif.: Parallax Press, 1989.

O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1990. (Highly Recommended) The Chicago Public Library has chosen Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried as the Fall, 2003 selection of it's One Book, One Chicago program.

O'Neill, Susan. Don't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Vietnam. New York: Ballantine, 2001.

Phan, Aimee. We Should Never Meet. New York: St. Martin's, 2004.

Primm, Sandy. Short Time: Stories. St. Louis, Mo.: Cauldron Press, 1977.

Rodriquez, Michael W. Humidity Moon: Stories of the Vietnam War. San Antonio, Tex.: Pecan Grove Press, 1998.

Suddick, Tom. A Few Good Men. New York: Avon, 1978.

"War Stories." TriQuarterly 45 (Spring 1979).


For additional information or for individual short stories by author, see Wittman, Sandra. Writing About Vietnam: A Bibliography of the Literature of the Vietnam Conflict. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989.