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REMF Bibliography

A Bibliography of Viet Nam War Literature

Compiled by David A. Willson with Nancy Kendall

Viet Nam War Novels O-R

Contents: Cartoons & Comics | Children's Literature | Drama | Graphic Novels | Miscellaneous | Novels | Poetry | Pornography | Proofs | Reviews | Screenplays | Short Stories


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  • O'Brien, Tim. Going After Cacciato. New York: Dell, 1975 (mass market paperback).
  • O'Brien, Tim. Going After Cacciato. New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, (c)1978, (c)1975 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • O'Brien, Tim. Going After Cacciato. New York: Delacorte Press, (c)1978, (c)1975 (trade paperback).
  • O'Brien, Tim. Going After Cacciato. New York: Delta Book/Seymour Lawrence, 1979, (c)1978, (c)1975 (1st Delta printing, trade paperback).
  • O'Brien, Tim. Going After Cacciato. Great Britain: Triad/Grannada, 1980, (c)1978, (c)1975 (mass market paperback).
  • O'Brien, Tim. Going After Cacciato. New York: Dell [Laurel], 1987, (c)1975, (c)1976, (c)1977, (c)1978 (mass market paperback).
  • O'Brien, Tim. Going After Cacciato. London, England: Collins, 1988, (c)1975-1978 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • O'Brien, Tim. If I Die in a Combat Zone; Box Me Up and Ship Me Home. New York: Dell, 1974, (c)1969, (c)1970, (c)1972, (c)1973 (1st Dell printing, mass market paperback).
  • O'Brien, Tim. If I Die in a Combat Zone; Box Me Up and Ship Me Home. New York: Dell (Laurel Edition), 1979, (c)1969, (c)1970, (c)1972, (c)1973 (1st Laurel printing, mass market paperback).
  • O'Brien, Tim. If I Die in a Combat Zone; Box Me Up and Ship Me Home. New York: Laurel Books (Dell), 1987, (c)1969, (c)1970, (c)1972, (c)1973 (marketed as non-fiction, mass market paperback).
  • O'Brien, Tim. Northern Lights. New York: Dell, 1976 (1st Dell printing, mass market paperback).
  • O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. New York: Penguin Books, 1991, (c)1990 (trade paperback).
  • Ogden, Richard E. Green Knight and Red Mourning. New York: Manor Books, 1980 (mass market paperback).
  • Ogden, Richard E. Green Knight, Red Mourning. New York: Zebra Books, 1985 (1st printing, marketed as non-fiction, mass market paperback).
  • Okimoto, Jean Davies. Jason's Women. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Oldham, Perry. Higher Ground; A Novel. San Francisco: Mercury House, 1987 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Olemy, P.T. The Transgressors. New York: Caravelle Books, 1967 (mass market paperback).
  • Olson, David R. Few Die Well. New York: Jove Books, 1991 (mass market paperback).
  • O'Rourke, William. The Meekness of Isaac. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1974 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket)[Story of two friends, one who goes to and returns from Vietnam, and the other who is resisting the draft. Deals with the effects of the war on them and the world around them.]

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  • Park, Owen. The Chinatown Connection. New York: Pinnacle, 1977 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Park, Paul. Soldiers of Paradise. New York: Arbor House, 1987 (cloth cover, dust jacket).[science fiction, Vietnam metaphor]
  • Parker, Lee. Donovan's Devils #1--The Assassination Is Set For July 4... New York: Award Books, 1974 (mass market paperback).
  • Parker, T. Jefferson. Little Saigon. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).[post-war Vietnam/Hanoi & Orange County, Calif.-- Vietnam Vets & refugees]
  • Parque, Richard. A Distant Thunder. New York: Zebra Books, 1989 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Parque, Richard. Firefight. New York: Zebra Books, 1986 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Parque, Richard. Flight of the Phantom. New York: Zebra, 1987 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Parque, Richard. Hellbound. New York: Zebra Books, 1985 (mass market paperback).
  • Parque, Richard. Hellbound. Toronto, Canada: General Paperbacks, 1985 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Parque, Richard. Sweet Vietnam. New York: Zebra Books, 1984 (mass market paperback).
  • Paterson, Katherine. Park's Quest. New York: Lodestar Books (E.P. Dutton), 1988 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).[juvenile fiction--post-war story of boy searching to learn about father who died in Vietnam]
  • Patterson, Harry. [see: Higgins, Jack]
  • Paulsen, Gary. Sentries. New York: Puffin Books, 1987, (c)1986 (trade paperback).[young adult novel--includes chapter in Vietnam]
  • Pearl, Jack. Stockade. New York: Trident Press, 1965, (c)1964 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Pearl, Jack. Stockade. New York: Pocket Books, 1965, (c)1964 (mass market paperback).
  • Pelfrey, William. The Big V. New York: Liveright, 1972 (cloth pictorial cover).[Liveright New Writer series]
  • Pelfrey, William. The Big V. New York: Avon, 1984, (c)1972 (mass market paperback).
  • Pelfrey, William. Hamburger Hill, A Novel. (based on the screenplay by Jim Carabatsos) New York: Avon, 1987 (1st Avon printing, mass market paperback).
  • Pendleton, Don. Mack Bolan #43: Return to Vietnam. New York: Gold Eagle/Worldwide, 1982 (mass market paperback).
  • Pendleton, Don. Mack Bolan #61: Tiger War. Toronto; New York: Worldwide Library, 1984 (1st edition, mass market paperback).
  • Pendleton, Don. Mack Bolan #63: The New War Book. Toronto; New York: Worldwide Library, 1984 (1st edition, mass market paperback).
  • Pendleton, Don. Mack Bolan #65: Cambodia Clash. Toronto; New York: Worldwide Library, 1984 (1st edition, mass market paperback).
  • Pendleton, Don. Mack Bolan #69: Skysweeper. Toronto; New York: Worldwide Library, 1984 (1st edition, mass market paperback).
  • Pendleton, Don. Mack Bolan #79: Council of Kings. Toronto; New York: Worldwide Library, 1985 (1st edition, mass market paperback).
  • Pendleton, Don. Mack Bolan #104: Devil's Horn. Toronto; New York: Worldwide Library, 1987 (1st edition, mass market paperback).[Golden Triangle]
  • Pendleton, Don. Mack Bolan #113--Vietnam Fallout [The Executioner]. Toronto; New York: Worldwide Library, 1988 (1st edition, mass market paperback).[Post-war Vietnam]
  • Pendleton, Don. Mack Bolan #118--Warrior's Revenge [The Executioner]. Toronto; New York: Worldwide Library, 1988 (1st edition, mass market paperback).[return to Vietnam to locate American MIAs held captive]
  • Pendleton, Don. Mack Bolan # 123--War Born [The Executioner]. Toronto; New York: Worldwide Library, 1989 (1st edition, mass market paperback).
  • Pendleton, Don. Mack Bolan: Dirty War. Donn Mills, Ontario: Worldwide Library, 1985 (1st edition, mass market paperback).
  • Pendleton, Don. Mack Bolan: Flesh & Blood. Toronto; New York: Worldwide Library, 1988 (1st edition, mass market paperback).
  • Peters, Daniel. Border Crossings. New York: Harper & Row, 1978 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).[protesting Vietnam War at Yale during 1969-70]
  • Peters, Ralph. Bravo Romeo; a novel. New York: Richard Marek, 1981 (cloth cover, dust jacket).[Vietnam Vet--post-Vietnam era]
  • Peters, Ralph. Bravo Romeo. New York: Pocket Books, 1990, (c)1981 (1st Pocket Books printing, mass market paperback).
  • Peters, Stephen. The Park is Mine. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Peters, Stephen. The Park is Mine. New York: Warner Books, 1982, (c)1981 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Peterson, Michael. The Immortal Dragon. New York: New American Library (Signet Books), 1983 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Peterson, Michael. A Time of War. New York: Pocket Books, 1990 (1st Pocket Books hardcover printing, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Peterson, Michael. A Time of War. New York: Pocket Books (Pocket Star Books), 1991, (c)1990 (1st Pocket Books paperback printing, mass market paperback).
  • Petrakis, Harry Mark. In the Land of Morning. New York: David McKay Company, 1973 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Pfarrer, Donald. Neverlight. New York: Seaview Books, 1982 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Pfarrer, Donald. Neverlight. New York: Laurel, 1984, (c)1982 (mass market paperback).
  • Philburn, Dennis K. Freedom Bird [Soldier of Fortune Magazine Presents: No.6]. New York: TOR Books, 1987 (mass market paperback).
  • Phillips, Jayne Anne. Machine Dreams. New York: E.P. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence, 1984 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Phillips, Jayne Anne. Machine Dreams. New York: Pocket Books, 1985, (c)1984 (1st Pocket Books printing, mass market paperback).
  • Polk, Alvin L. Fragged: a novel of Vietnam. New York: Zebra Books, 1989 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Pollard, Rhys. The Cream Machine. Cremorne, Sydney, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1972 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Pollock, J.C. Centrifuge. New York: Crown, 1984 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Pollock, J.C. Centrifuge. New York: Dell, 1985, (c)1984 (mass market paperback).
  • Pollock, J.C. Mission M.I.A. London: New English Library, 1983, (c)1982 (1st NEL edition, mass market paperback).
  • Pollock, J.C. Mission M.I.A. New York: Crown, 1982 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Pollock, J.C. Mission M.I.A. New York: Dell, 1983, (c)1982 (mass market paperback).
  • Poole, Frederick King. Where Dragons Dwell. New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1971 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Poole, Frederick King. Where Dragons Dwell. New York: Berkley Medallion Books, 1972, (c)1971 (mass market paperback).
  • Porter, John B. If I Make My Bed In Hell. Waco, TX: Word Books, 1969 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Porter, John B. If I Make My Bed in Hell... Minneapolis, MN: Jeremy Books, 1979, (c)1969 (mass market paperback).
  • Potter, Jerry Allen. A Talent For Dying. New York: Fawcett Popular Library, 1980 (1st Fawcett Popular Library printing, mass market paperback).
  • Potts, Ron. Black Moon. New York: Popular Library (Warner Books), 1987 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Pournelle, J.E. Blood and Iron; There Will be War, Vol. III. New York: Tom Doherty Associates (TOR Books), 1984 (mass market paperback).
  • Pournelle, J.E. Men of War; There Will be War, Vol. II. New York: Tom Doherty Associates (TOR Books), 1984 (1st TOR printing, mass market paperback).
  • Pournelle, Jerry. Red Heroin. New York: Charter Books, 1985, (c)1969 (mass market paperback).
  • Powers, Charles F. A Matter of Honor. New York: First East Coast Theater and Publishing Co., 1982 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Pratt, John Clark. The Laotian Fragments. New York: Viking, 1974 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Pratt, John Clark. The Laotian Fragments. New York: Avon, 1985, (c)1974 (1st Avon printing, mass market paperback).
  • Proffitt, Nicholas. The Embassy House. New York: Bantam, 1986 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Proffitt, Nicholas. The Embassy House. New York: Bantam Books, 1986 (mass market paperback).
  • Proffitt, Nicholas. The Embassy House. Toronto; New York: Bantam, 1988, (c)1986 (British edition, mass market paperback).
  • Proffitt, Nicholas. L'Exécuteur du Mékong [original title: The Embassy House]. Paris, France: Editions Albin Michel, 1989, (c)1986 (French translation by Frank Straschitz--trade paperback).
  • Proffitt, Nicholas. Gardens of Stone. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1983 (1st printing, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Proffitt, Nicholas. Gardens of Stone. New York: TOR, 1984, (c)1983 (mass market paperback).
  • Proffitt, Nicholas. Gardens of Stone. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1987, (c)1983 (mass market paperback).
  • Proffitt, Nicholas. Gardens of Stone. New York: TOR Books, [1987], 1984, (c)1983 (1987 release in conjunction with the film, mass market paperback).
  • Pruitt, James N. Lobo One. New York: Avon Books, 1992 (1st Avon Books printing, mass market paperback).[post-war, vet leads ex-Special Forces group back to Vietnam to rescue kidnapped women]
  • Pruitt, James N. Striker One Down. (Soldier of Fortune No. 7) New York: TOR (Tom Doherty Assoc.), 1987 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Pugh, Charles. The Griot. Los Angeles, CA: Holloway House, 1986 (mass market paperback).[2nd half of novel takes place in Vietnam during the war--"And in Vietnam he was called on to use everything the old man had taught him. Just to survive."]

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  • Quammen, David. The Zolta Configuration. New York: TOR Books, 1984, (c)1983 (1st TOR printing, mass market paperback).

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  • Raines, Jeff. The Big Island. New York: Beech Tree Books (William Morrow), 1987 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Raines, Jeff. The Big Island. New York: Avon Books, 1989, (c)1987 (1st Avon Books printing, mass market paperback).
  • Rampone, Albert. Silent Birdmen. Chelsea, MI: Book Crafters, 1988 (cloth cover, dust jacket).[novel about the year spent in Vietnam as a 20-year-old helicopter pilot]
  • Randle, Kevin & Cornett, Robert. Remember Gettysburg! New York: Charter Books, 1988 (mass market paperback).["...a Hard-fighting Platoon of Vietnam Vets About to Change the Course of History...Again."]
  • Randle, Kevin and Cornett, Robert. Remember the Alamo! New York: Charter Books, 1986, (c)1980 (mass market paperback).
  • Randle, Kevin & Cornett, Robert. Remember the Little Bighorn! New York: Charter Books, 1990 (mass market paperback).[time-traveling Vietnam soldiers]
  • Randle, Kevin & Cornett, Robert. Seeds of War. New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, 1986 (mass market paperback).[future war--Vietnam War metaphor]
  • Ransom, Bill. Jaguar. New York: Ace Books, 1990 (Ace original edition,).["In waking life, he is a Vietnam vet with a mysterious sleep disorder, confined to a V.A. hospital bed. When he sleeps, he roams the plains of another world, ..."]
  • Redner, Morton. Getting Out. New York: Pocket Books, 1972, (c)1971 (mass market paperback).
  • Reed, J.D. Free Fall. New York: Delacorte Press, 1980 (1st edition, 1st printing, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Reeman, Douglas. The Greatest Enemy. New York: Jove Books, 1980, (c)1970 (1st Jove edition, mass market paperback).[Naval operations in the China Sea--based in part on The Arnheiter Affair]
  • Reeman, Douglas. The Path of the Storm. New York: Jove Books, 1979, (c)1966 (1st Jove edition, mass market paperback).
  • Reeves, James R. Mekong! New York: Ballantine Books, 1984 (mass market paperback).
  • Reeves, James R. and Taylor, James C. Covert Actions. New York: Ballantine, 1987 (1st edition, mass market paperback).
  • Reichert, Mickey Zucker. By Chaos Cursed. [The Bifrost Guardians #5] New York: DAW Books, 1991 (1st printing, mass market paperback).[another sequel to Godslayer]
  • Reichert, Mickey Zucker. Dragonrank Master. New York: DAW Books, 1989 (1st printing, mass market paperback).[sequel to Godslayer--soldier in Vietnam snatched from the war and transported to another time and place]
  • Reichert, Micky Zucker. Godslayer. New York: Daw Books, 1987 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Reid, Robert Sims. Big Sky Blues. New York: Pocket Books, 1988 (1st Pocket Books printing, mass market paperback).[Vietnam Vet--"Now one cop is a hero. And his partner is nagged by doubt. Was it a righteous shoot...or did Culp move too fast? The question makes them strangers--until a brutal act brings the legacy of 'Nam home to Montana..."]
  • Rekab, Bill. The Dead and the Damned. London: Zenith Publications, n.d. (mass market paperback)
  • Reston, James Jr. To Defend, To Destroy. New York: W.W. Norton, 1971 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).[takes place in Asia during the war years--"... the dilemma of young Americans caught between new activist idealism and the old conventionalities of patriotism and power."]
  • Rich, Curt. The Advisors. New York: Zebra Books, 1985 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Riggan, Rob. Free Fire Zone. New York: W.W. Norton, 1984 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Riggan, Rob. Free Fire Zone. New York: Fawcett Crest, 1985, (c)1984 (mass market paperback).
  • Rinaldi, Nicholas. Bridge Fall Down. New York: St. Martins/Marek, 1985 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).[Vietnam Metaphor--takes place in a "...nameless, unfriendly Third World jungle..."--a "techno-war"]
  • Rinaldi, Nicholas. Bridge Fall Down. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986, (c)1985 (1st St. Martin's Press mass market edition, mass market paperback).
  • Rivera, Oswald. Fire and Rain: A Novel of Vietnam. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1990 (1st edition, 1st printing, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Rivers, Caryl. Intimate Enemies. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1987 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).[Vietnam Vet and Vietnam War Protester]
  • Rivers, Gayle & Hudson, James. The Five Fingers. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Rivers, Gayle & Hudson, James. The Five Fingers. New York: Bantam, 1981, (c)1979 (mass market paperback).
  • Rivers, Gayle & Hudson, James. The Five Fingers. New York: Bantam Books, [1991--reissued], 1979 Bantam edition, (c)1978 (mass market paperback).
  • Roadarmel, Paul. Beach House 7. New York: St. Martin's, 1987 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Roadarmel, Paul. Beach House 7. Toronto; New York: Worldwide Books, 1988, (c)1987 (mass market paperback).
  • Roberts, Mark K. Soldier for Hire #7: Pathet Vengeance. New York: Zebra Books, 1983 (mass market paperback).
  • Roberts, Suzanne. Vietnam Nurse. New York: Ace Books, 1966 (mass market paperback).
  • Robinson, John. January's Dream; a novel. Cambridge, MA: Green Street Press, 1985 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).[Vietnam Vets--"a group of burned ... vets takes action against those responsible for the atrocities committed in the jungles of Southeast Asia ..."]
  • Rodriguez, Joe. Oddsplayer. Houston, TX: Arte Publico Press, 1988 (trade paperback).
  • Rollins, Kelly. Fighter Pilots, a novel. Boston: Little, Brown, 1981 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).[story takes place from World War II through Vietnam]
  • Roper, L.V. Rampage. Curtis Books, 1973 (mass market paperback).
  • Roskey, William. Muffled Shots: A Year On the DMZ. Simpsonville, MD: Elghund Publishing, 1986 (cloth cover, dust jacket).[U.S. Army in Korea during the Vietnam War, 1967]
  • Roskey, William. Muffled Shots: A Year in the DMZ. New York: Dell, 1988, (c)1986 (mass market paperback).
  • Ross, William. Bamboo Terror. Rutland, VT; Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle, 1969 (2nd printing, printed in Japan, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Ross, William. Bamboo Terror. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1969 (1st printing, printed in Japan, trade paperback).
  • Roth, Robert. Sand in the Wind. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1973 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket)
  • Roth, Robert. Sand in the Wind. New York: Pinnacle Books, 1974, (c)1973 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Roth, Robert. Sand in the Wind. New York: Pinnacle Books, 1977, (c)1973 (2nd printing, mass market paperback).
  • Roth, Robert. Sand in the Wind. New York: Pinnacle Books, 1982, (c)1973 (6th printing, mass market paperback).
  • Roth, Robert. Sand in the Wind. New York: Pinnacle Books, 1985, (c)1973 (mass market paperback).
  • Rothberg, Abraham. The Other Man's Shoes. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968 (1st printing, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Rothberg, Abraham. The Other Man's Shoes. New York: Avon Books, 1971, (c)1968 (1st Avon printing, mass market paperback).
  • Rottmann, Larry Lee. (see: Lee, Larry)
  • Rowe, James N. The Judas Squad. Boston: Little, Brown, 1977 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).[post-war, Vietnam Vets posing as fanatic terrorists]
  • Rowe, James N. The Judas Squad. New York: Berkley Books, 1979, (c)1977 (mass market paperback).
  • Rubin, Jonathan. The Barking Deer. New York: Braziller, 1974 (1st printing, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Rubin, Jonathan. The Barking Deer. New York: Avon, 1982, (c)1974 (mass market paperback).
  • Rubin, Jonathan. The Barking Deer. New York: Avon, 1984, (c)1974 (mass market paperback).
  • Runyan, Charles W. Bloody Jungle. New York: Ace Books, 1966 (mass market paperback).
  • Runyan, Charles W. Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die. New York: Pyramid Books, 1977 (mass market paperback).
  • Ryan, Conall. Black Gravity. New York: Ballantine Books, 1985 (1st edition, mass market paperback).
  • Ryan, William. Dr. Excitement's Elixir of Longevity. New York: Donald I. Fine, 1986 (cloth cover, dust jacket).[Vietnam Vet]
  • Ryan, William. Dr. Excitement's Elixir of Longevity. New York: Laurel, 1987, (c)1986 (trade paperback).

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