REMF Bibliography

A Bibliography of Viet Nam War Literature

Compiled by David A. Willson with Nancy Kendall

Viet Nam War Novels S-T

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• Sack, John. The Man-Eating Machine. Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1973 (1st printing, cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Sadler, Barry. Casca #8: Soldier of Fortune. New York: Charter Books, 1983 (mass market paperback).
• Sadler, Barry. Casca #11: The Legionnaire. New York: Charter Books, 1984 (mass market paperback).
• Sadler, Barry. Casca #14: The Phoenix. New York: Charter Books, 1985 (mass market paperback).
• Sadler, Barry. Casca: The Eternal Mercenary. New York: Charter Books, 1979 (mass market paperback).
• Sadler, Barry. Casca: The War Lord. New York: Ace Charter, 1980 (mass market paperback).
• Sadler, Barry. Cry Havoc. New York: TOR Books, 1983 (mass market paperback).
• Sadler, Barry. Phü Nham. New York: TOR Books, 1984 (1st TOR printing, mass market paperback).
• Sadler, Barry. The Moi. Nashville, TN: Aurora Publishers, 1977 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Sadler, Barry. The Shooter. New York: TOR Books, 1987 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
• Sandberg, Berent. Brass Diamonds. New York: New American Library, 1980 (1st printing, cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Sandberg, Berent. Brass Diamonds. Bergenfield, NJ: New American Library, 1981, (c)1980 (mass market paperback).
• Sandberg, Berent. The Chinese Spur. New York: New American Library, 1983 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
• Sandberg, Peter Lars. Wolf Mountain. Chicago: Playboy Press, 1976, (c)1975 (mass market paperback).
• Sanders, William. Steel Wings. New York: Jove Books, 1991 (mass market paperback).[Air America pilot in Laos 1966-70, Harlon Walker is connected with "a CIA operative who airlifted opium in planes meant for refugees..." Twenty years later, having sworn to kill him if he ever saw him again, Harlan finds the CIA agent dead, and himself in trouble with the FBI, the CIA, and others after him. Most of two early chapters in the book take place in Laos/Vietnam, with additional references throughout.]
• Sargent, Craig. The Last Ranger. New York: Popular Library (Warner), 1986 (1st printing, mass market paperback).[future war--ex-Green Beret hero--description of his involvement in Vietnam War in Chapt. 2]
• Sasser, Charles W. The 100th Kill; A Novel of Vietnam. New York: Pocket Books, 1992 (1st Pocket Books printing, mass market paperback).
• Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann. The Healer's War. New York: Doubleday (Foundation Books), 1988 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann. The Healer's War. New York: Bantam Books, 1989, (c)1988 (mass market paperback).
• Schaefer, Blake and Carol. Southern Comfort. New York: Pinnacle Books, 1981 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
• Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg. Buffalo Afternoon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg. Buffalo Afternoon. New York: Ivy Books (Ballantine), 1990, (c)1989 (1st Ballantine Books edition, mass market paperback).
• Schmidt, Dan. Run With the Devil. New York: Bantam Books (Falcon Books), 1991 (mass market paperback).["Years ago Sgt. Ben Williams told the sick truth about the massacre at Du Choc--a grim tale of guilt and genocide that shocked the nation. A dozen war criminals went to jail. But now they're out again... combat-tough former marines, who have waited a long time for a piece of Ben's hide." "Ben cursed that day, the one day in Vietnam that changed his life forever."--many references to Vietnam and flashbacks to events there.]
• Schutz, Benjamin M. A Tax in Blood. New York: TOR Books, 1987 (1st printing, cloth cover, dust jacket).[Vietnam Vet--flashbacks]
• Schutz, Benjamin M. A Tax in Blood. New York: Bantam, 1989, (c)1987 (mass market paperback).["...a bomb kills nineteen people at the black wall of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. ... an escalating spiral of violence, brainwashing, and the horrific aftermath of the Vietnam War--relived by Haggerty's tormented partner..."]
• Scipione, Paul A. Shades of Gray. Princeton, NJ: Prometheus Press, 1988 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Scofield, Jonathan. Junglefire; Freedom Fighters #15. New York: Dell, 1982 (mass market paperback).
• Scott, Leonard B. Charlie Mike. New York: Ballantine Books, 1985 (1st edition, trade paperback).
• Scott, Leonard B. Charlie Mike. New York: Ballantine Books, 1988, (c)1985 (1st Mass Market edition, mass market paperback).
• Scott, Leonard B. The Hill; a novel of Vietnam. New York: Ballantine Books, 1989 (1st edition, trade paperback).
• Scott, Leonard B. The Last Run. New York: Ballantine Books, 1987 (1st edition, trade paperback).
• Scott, Leonard B. The Last Run. New York: Ballantine Books, 1990, (c)1987 (1st Mass Market edition, mass market paperback).
• Seidman, Robert J. One Smart Indian. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1977 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Seidman, Robert J. One Smart Indian. Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 1979, (c)1977 (mass market paperback).["...Seidman implicitly sees the Indian wars through the melancholy experience of Vietnam...He captures the futility and inevitability of our Asian adventures more completely than any novel overtly about that War. ..."--Geoffrey Stokes, The Village Voice]
• Sellers, Con. Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? New York: Pyramid Books, 1969 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
• Seran, Val. Viet Nam Mission to Hell! New York: Bee-Line Books, 1966 (mass market paperback).
• Shapiro, Stanley. A Time to Remember. New York: Random House, 1986 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).[main character's brother was killed in Vietnam--meets a man who has created a time machine which sends him back in time to try and stop Kennedy assassination--believes he can change history and save his brother's life]
• Shaplen, Robert. A Forest of Tigers. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).[Americans in the Indo-Chinese War]
• Sheldon, Walter J. The Red Flower Kill. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1971 (mass market paperback).
• Shepard, Lucius. Life During Wartime Toronto; New York: Bantam, 1987 (trade paperback).[set in Central America, Vietnam metaphor]
• Shepard, Lucius. Life During Wartime. Toronto; New York: Bantam Books, 1991, (c)1987 (mass market paperback).[set in Central America, Vietnam metaphor]
• Sherman, David. The Night Fighters: Knives in the Night. New York: Ivy Books, 1987 (1st edition, mass market paperback).
• Sherman, David. The Night Fighters, Book 2: Main Force Assault. New York: Ivy Books, 1987 (1st edition, mass market paperback).
• Sherman, David. The Night Fighters, Book 3: Out of the Fire. New York : Ivy Books, 1988, (c)1987 (1st edition, mass market paperback).
• Sherman, David. The Night Fighters, Book 4: A Rock and A Hard Place. New York: Ivy Books, 1988 (1st edition, mass market paperback).
• Sherman, David. The Night Fighters, Book 5: A Nghu Night Falls. New York: Ivy Books, 1988 (1st edition, mass market paperback).
• Sherman, David. The Night Fighters, Book 6: Charlie Don't Live Here Anymore. New York: Ivy Books, 1989 (1st edition, mass market paperback).
• Sherman, David. The Squad; a Novel of Vietnam. New York: Ivy Books, 1991, (c)1990 (mass market paperback).
• Sherman, David. There I Was. New York: Ivy Books, 1989 (1st edition, mass market paperback).
• Shrake, Bud. Night Never Falls. New York: Random House, 1987 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).[American journalist at Dien Bien Phu]
• Sidney, George. For the Love of Dying. New York: Pocket Books, 1970, (c)1969 (mass market paperback).[Vietnam War novel disguised as a Korean War novel]
• Silliphant, Stirling. Bronze Bell. New York: Ballantine Books, 1985 (1st edition, mass market paperback).
• Silliphant, Stirling. Silver Star. New York: Ballantine Books, 1986 (1st edition., mass market paperback).
• Silliphant, Stirling. Steel Tiger. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983 (1st edition, mass market paperback).
• Silver, Joan & Linda Gottlieb. Limbo. New York: Viking Press, 1972 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Silver, Joan & Linda Gottlieb. Limbo. New York: Pocket Books, 1972 (mass market paperback).
• Simmen, Jim. Those Who Dared. New York: Zebra Books, 1990 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
• Simpson, Ronald. The Return of Colonel Pho. Derby, CT: Monarch Books, 1965 (mass market paperback).
• Sinor, Paul. Operation Brighteyes. Canton, OH: Daring Books, 1987 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Sinor, Paul. Operation Brighteyes. Canton, OH: Daring Books, 1987 (trade paperback).
• Sinor, Paul. Operation Brighteyes. New York: Lynx Books, 1988, (c)1987 (mass market paperback).
• Skimin, Robert. Soldier for Hire #4: Bloodletting! New York: Zebra Books, 1982 (mass market paperback).
• Skipp, John and Craig Spector. The Scream. Toronto; New York: Bantam, 1988 (mass market paperback).[Horror--Vietnam Vet--many references to Vietnam]
• Slaughter, Frank G. Devil's Harvest. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket)[Laos--"...two scientists who are morally committed to rival ideologies. ...--to develop a technique for producing enough algae to feed the world. Merchant would contribute the discovery to the cause of world peace and plenty; Thornton's ambition is to see the process used as a weapon by the Communist Chinese."]
• Sloan, James Park. War Games. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971 (1st printing, cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Sloan, James Park. War Games. New York: Avon Books, 1973, (c)1971 (mass market paperback).
• Smally, Peter. A Warm Gun. London, Great Britain: Andre Deutsch, 1972 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Smith, L. Neil. The Wardove. New York: Berkley Books, 1986 (mass market paperback).[Vietnam War metaphor--science fiction]
• Smith, Steven Phillip. American Boys. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1975 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Smith, Steven Phillip. American Boys. New York: Avon Books, 1984, (c)1975 (mass market paperback).
• Spetz, Steven N. Rat Pack Six. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1969 (mass market paperback).
• Spinrad, Norman. The Men in the Jungle. New York: Leisure Books, 1967 (mass market paperback).
• St. John, David. Festival for Spies. New York: Signet, 1966 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
• Starlin, Jim & Graziunas, Daina. Among Madmen. New York: ROC Books (Penguin), 1990 (1st printing, mass market paperback)--[includes 50 illustrations][Vietnam Vet--references to Vietnam and the War]
• Steel, Danielle. Message From Nam. New York: Delacorte Press, 1990 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Steel, Danielle. Message From Nam. New York: Dell, 1991, (c)1990 (mass market paperback).
• Stein, Robert. Apollyon. n.p.: Maecenas Press, 1985 (trade paperback, distributed by: University of Iowa). ["...the story of one man's struggle with himself, his parents, and particularly with his traumatic experiences in Viet Nam. ...the story of David Mikhael Abaddon's struggle, after Viet Nam, to become whole again..."]
• Stella, Charles. Blue Lightning. New York: Warner Books, 1990 (1st printing, cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Stella, Charles. Blue Lightning. New York: Warner Books, 1991, (c)1990 (1st paperback printing, mass market paperback).
• Stevenson, Williamson. Booby Trap: A Novel. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Stewart, Sam. Payback. New York: Pocket Books, 1988 (1st Pocket Books printing, mass market paperback).[post-war, Vietnam Vet--2 chapters flash back to the war, references to the war--"It began in the fires of Vietnam. Now it's exploding in pharmaceutical poisoning, blackmail, and a murderous manhunt..."]
• Stivers, Dick. Hostile Fire. Toronto; New York: Worldwide Library, 1990 (1st edition, mass market paperback).[post-war, Able Team--"The war in Vietnam is over, but the battle rages on for Able Team. Only now the jungle fighting is in the hills of Orange County and enemy territory is Little Saigon,... General Sonny Trang ... He's doing business with a drug network hot-wired to Hanoi heavies... The President has only one option: he orders Carl Lyons and his men to return hostile fire...to crush Sonny and his Vietcong drug lords. This time America must win the war!"]
• Stokes, Robert S. Walking Wounded. New York: Dell, 1980 (mass market paperback).
• Stoll, Jack L. A Father is Dying. New York: New Earth Books, 1978 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Stone, Nick. Kane's War. New York: Ivy Books (Ballantine), 1987 (1st edition, mass market paperback).
• Stone, Robert. Dog Soldiers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974 (1st printing, cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Stone, Robert. Dog Soldiers. New York: Ballantine Books, 1978, (c)1974 (mass market paperback).
• Stone, Robert. Dog Soldiers. London, Great Britain: Star Books (W.H. Allen Co.., Ltd.), 1979, (c)1973, (c)1974 (mass market paperback).
• Stone, Robert. Dog Soldiers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981, (c)1974 (Houghton Mifflin Company paperback, trade paperback).
• Stone, Robert. Dog Soldiers. New York: Penguin, 1987, (c)1973, (c)1974 (trade paperback).
• Stone, Scott C.S. The Coasts of War. New York: Pyramid Books, 1966 (mass market paperback).
• Stone, Scott C.S. The Dragon's Eye. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1969 (mass market paperback).
• Stone, Scott C.S. Song of the Wolf: A Novel. NY: Arbor House, 1985 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Stone, Scott C.S. Song of the Wolf. New York: Signet (New American Library), 1987, (c)1985 (1st Signet printing, mass market paperback).
• Stone, Tom. Armstrong. New York: Warner Paperback Library, 1973 (mass market paperback).
• Straub, Peter. Koko. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1988 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).[..."four veterans, members of the same platoon ... they were first joined in the brotherhood of combat,and now are drawn together by their awareness of a series of grisly murders being committed throughout Asia ... another member of their platoon, a friend to them all, must be the man responsible."]
• Straub, Peter. Koko. New York: Signet Books (New American Library), 1989, (c)1988 (1st Signet printing, mass market paperback).
• Striker, Randy. Key West Connection. New York: Signet Books, 1981 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
• Suddick, Tom. A Few Good Men. New York: Avon Books, 1978 (1st Avon printing, mass market paperback).[see also SHORT STORIES]
• Suddick, Tom. A Few Good Men. New York: Avon Books, 1984, (c)1978 (mass market paperback).
• Sutton, Richard O. Operation White Star. Canton, OH: Daring Books, 1990 (cloth cover, dust jacket).

• Tate, Donald. Bravo Burning. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1986. (cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Tate, Donald. Bravo Burning. Toronto; New York: Bantam Books, 1988, (c)1986 (mass market paperback).
• Tauber, Peter. The Last Best Hope. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Tauber, Peter. The Last Best Hope. New York: Ballantine Books, 1978, (c)1977 (mass market paperback).
• Taylor, Barry. Shadow Tiger. New York: Warner Books, 1990, (c)1989 (1st Warner Books edition, mass market paperback).
• Taylor, Charles D. Show of Force. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Taylor, Charles D. Show of Force. New York: Charter Books, 1981, (c)1980 (1st Charter printing, mass market paperback).
• Taylor, Charles D. War Ship. New York: Jove Books, 1989 (mass market paperback).[several chapters take place in Vietnam, with references and flashbacks throughout]
• Taylor, Laura. Honorbound; A Novel of Love and Courage, of America and Vietnam. New York: Franklin Watts, 1988 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Taylor, Thomas. A-18. New York: Crown Publishers, 1967 ([1st edition], cloth cover, dust jacket).[Special Forces Strike into North Vietnam]
• Taylor, Thomas. A Piece of This Country. New York: W.W. Norton, 1970 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Taylor, Thomas. A Piece of This Country. New York: PaperJacks, Ltd., 1986, (c)1970 (mass market paperback).
• Teed, Jack Hamilton. Fire Force. London: Star Books (W.H. Allen & Co., Ltd.), 1982 (mass market paperback).
• Teed, Jack Hamilton. Gunships #1: The Killing Zone. New York: Zebra Books, 1981 (mass market paperback).
• Teed, Jack Hamilton. Gunships: The Killing Zone. London, Great Britain : Star Books (W.H. Allen & Co. Ltd.), 1981 (mass market paperback).
• Teed, Jack Hamilton. Gunships #2: Fire Force. New York: Zebra Books, 1982 (mass market paperback).
• Teed, Jack Hamilton. Gunships #3: Cobra Kill. New York: Zebra Books, 1984 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
• Teed, Jack Hamilton. Gunships #4: Sky Fire. New York: Zebra Books, 1986 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
• Terman, Douglas. First Strike. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Terman, Douglas. First Strike. New York: Pocket Books, 1980, (c)1978, (c)1979 (1st Pocket Books printing, mass market paperback).
• Terman, Douglas. First Strike. New York: Pocket Books, 1986, (c)1978, (c)1979 (mass market paperback).
• Thacker, Jada. Finally the Pawn. Avon Books, 1986 (1st Avon printing, mass market paperback).
• Theroux, Joseph. Black Coconuts, Brown Magic. The Dial Press, 1983 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Theroux, Paul. Saint Jack. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973 (1st printing, cloth cover, dust jacket).[Jack Flowers runs a private hotel in Singapore for American soldiers on leave from Vietnam. He gets caught up in a plot against a Major-General in Saigon.]
• Theroux, Paul. Saint Jack. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1977, (c)1973 (Uniform Edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Theroux, Paul. Saint Jack. New York: Ballantine Books, 1979, (c)1973 (mass market paperback).
• Thomas, Leslie. Onward Virgin Soldiers. New York: Signet Books (New American Library), 1972 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
• Thomas, Leslie. Onward Virgin Soldiers. London, England: Pan Books, 1973, (c)1971 (mass market paperback).
• Thornburg, Newton. Cutter and Bone. New York: Fawcett Popular Library, 1977, (c)1976 (1st Fawcett Popular Library printing, mass market paperback).[Vietnam Vet]
• Thornburg, Newton. Cutter and Bone. New York: Popular Library, 1977 (mass market paperback).
• Thorpe, Stephen J. Walking Wounded. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Thorpe, Stephen J. Walking Wounded. Bantam Books, 1985, (c)1980 (mass market paperback).
• Tiede, Tom. Coward. New York: Trident Press, 1968 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Tiede, Tom. Coward. New York: Pocket Books, 1968 (mass market paperback).
• Todd, Forrest Earl. The Pawns. New York: Pocket Books, 1989 (1st Pocket Books printing, mass market paperback).
• Toni A.M. The Buffalo Doctor. Philadelphia: Dorrance & Co., 1969 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Topol, B.H. A Fistful of Ego. Great Neck, NY: Todd & Honeywell, 1985 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Topol, B.H. A Fistful of Ego. New York: Critic's Choice, 1987, (c)1985 (1st Critic's Choice edition, mass market paperback).
• Tran Van Dinh. Blue Dragon, White Tiger; A Tet Story. Philadelphia: TriAm Press, 1983 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Tran Van Dinh. No Passenger on the River. New York: Vantage Press, 1965 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).["Against the background of cruel internecine fighting and political and military machinations of the leaders in Vietnam, ... Minh is sent with his special group to take part in an action against the Viet Cong ..."]
• Tran Van Dinh. No Passenger on the River. Fort Collins, CO: Pratt Publishing, 1989, (c)1965 (trade paperback, spiral bound).
• Tregaskis, Richard. China Bomb. New York: Avon, 1968 (1st Avon printing, mass market paperback).
• Trevor, James. The Savage Height. New York: Award Books, 1969 (1st Award printing, mass market paperback).
• Trowbridge, James. Easy Victories. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973 (1st printing, cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Truscott, Lucian K. IV. Army Blue: a Novel. New York: Crown Pub., 1989 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
• Truscott, Lucian K. IV. Army Blue. New York: Warner Books, 1990, (c)1989 (1st Warner Books printing, mass market paperback).
• Tully, Andrew. The Time of the Hawk. New York: William Morrow, 1967 (cloth cover, dust jacket).