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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 U-Z

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


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U

  • Utts, Thomas C. Korea Blue. New York: Penguin Books (Signet), 1991 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
    [Air Force Captain, shot down in Vietnam, recovers and is sent to Korea during the war, 1969]

V

  • Van Vors, H.L. End of the River. New York: Avon Books, 1983 (1st Avon printing, mass market paperback).
    [Vietnam War metaphor--special operation in "a Central American nation exploding in revolution, his enemies are the deadly jungle..."]
  • Van Wyck Mason, F. China Sea Murders. New York: Pocket Books, 1959 (mass market paperback).
  • Van Wyck Mason, F. Saigon Singer. New York: Doubleday & Co., 1946 (1st edition, cloth cover).
  • Van Wyck Mason, F. Secret Mission to Bangkok. New York: Pocket Books, 1961, (c)1960 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Van Wyck Mason, F. Secret Mission to Bangkok. New York: Popular Library, (c)1960 (mass market paperback).
  • Van Wyck Mason, F. Trouble in Burma. New York: Pocket Books, 1963, (c)1962 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Vaughan, Robert & Monroe Lynch. Brandywine's War. Bartholomew's House Ltd., 1971 (1st printing, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Vaughan, Robert & Monroe Lynch. Brandywine's War. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett, 1972, (c)1971 (mass market paperback).
  • Vaughan, Robert. Junglefire (see Scofield, Jonathan)
  • Vaughan, Robert. The Quick and the Dead. New York: Dell, 1984 (mass market paperback).
  • Vaughan, Robert. The Valkyrie Mandate. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Vaughan, Robert. The Valkyrie Mandate. New York: Pocket Books, 1975, (c)1974 (mass market paperback).
  • Vetter, Lawrence C. Jr. Blood on the Lotus; A Novel of Vietnam. New York: Ivy Books (Ballantine), 1990 (1st edition, mass market paperback).
  • Victor, Roger. Missing By Choice. New York: TOR Books, 1987 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Vitel, Michael. Charlie's Paradise, 1967-68. New York: Vantage Press, 1987 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Vo Phien. Intact.
    [translated from the Vietnamese by James Banerian] Victoria, Australia: Vietnamese Language & Culture Publications, 1990 (trade paperback).
    [story of a Vietnamese girl who leaves Vietnam at the end of the war with her mother, brother, and friend. Begins one year before the fall of South Vietnam and through their experiences in the U.S.]
  • Vu Hung. The Story of a Mahout and His War Elephant. Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1976 (paperback).

W

  • Wachtel, Chuck. Joe The Engineer. New York: William Morrow and Co., 1983 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Walsh, Patricia L. Forever Sad the Hearts. New York: Avon, 1982 (mass market paperback).
  • Wandke, Richard D. Vietnam Remembered. New York: Vantage Press, 1985 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Wartski, Maureen Crane. A Boat to Nowhere. New York: New American Library (Signet), 1981, (c)1980 (mass market paperback).
    [young adult novel--Vietnamese family who flee the war as boat people--illustrations]
  • Webb, James. A Country Such as This. New York: Doubleday, 1983 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Webb, James. A Country Such as This. New York: Bantam, 1985 (mass market paperback).
  • Webb, James. Fields of Fire. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1978 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Webb, James. Fields of Fire. Prentice-Hall Press, 1978 (cloth cover, dust jacket, book club edition).
  • Webb, James. Fields of Fire. New York: Bantam, 1979, (c)1978 (mass market paperback).
  • Webb, James. Fields of Fire. New York: Pocket Books, 1991, (c)1978 (1st Pocket Books printing, mass market paperback).
  • Webb, James. A Sense of Honor. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1981 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Webb, James. A Sense of Honor. New York: Bantam Books, 1982, (c)1981 (mass market paperback).
  • Webb, James. A Sense of Honour. London, Great Britain: Granada, 1982, (c)1981 (mass market paperback).
  • Webb, James. A Sense of Honour. London, Great Britain: Grafton Books (Collins), 1986, (c)1981 (mass market paperback).
  • Weinberg, Larry. War Zone. Toronto/New York: Bantam, 1985 (mass market paperback).
    [young adult fiction]
  • Werder, Albert D. A Spartan Education. Brooklyn Heights, NY: Beekman Publishers, 1978 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • West, Morris L. The Ambassador. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1965 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • West, Morris. The Ambassador. London, U.K.: The Book Club, 1966, (c)1965 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • West, Morris L. The Ambassador. New York: Dell, 1966, (c)1965 (mass market paperback).
  • West, Morris L. The Ambassador. Great Britain: Fontana Paperbacks, 1985, (c)1965 (mass market paperback).
  • West, Paul. The Place in Flowers Where Pollen Rests. New York: Doubleday, 1988 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • West, Paul. The Place in Flowers Where Pollen Rests. New York: Collier Books (Macmillan), 1989, (c)1988 (1st Collier Books edition, trade paperback).
    ["...his spiritual odyssey must reach beyond his uncle's death--to the hell of Vietnam and back again--..."]
  • Westcott, C.T. Half a Klick from Home. New York: Charter Books, 1990 (mass market paperback).
  • Weston, John. Hail, Hero! New York: David McKay Co., 1968 (cloth cover, dust jacket)
  • Weston, John. Hail, Hero! New York: Bantam, 1969, (c)1968 (mass market paperback).
  • White, Kent Jr. Prairie Fire. Canton, OH: Daring Books, 1983 (cloth cover).
  • White, Kent Jr. Prairie Fire. Canton, OH: Daring Books, 1983 (trade paperback).
  • White, Kent Jr. Prairie Fire. New York: Critic's Choice Paperbacks (Lorevan), 1987, (c)1983 (1st Critic's Choice edition, mass market paperback).
  • White, Kent Jr. Prairie Fire. New York: Bart Books, 1988, (c)1983 (1st Bart Books edition, mass market paperback).
  • White, Teri. La guerre n'est jamais finie.
    [original title: Tightrope] France: Gallimard, 1987 (mass market paperback).
  • White, Teri. Tight Rope. New York: Mysterious Press, 1986 (1st printing, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • White, Teri. Tight-Rope. New York: Mysterious Press, 1987, (c)1986 (1st Mysterious Press paperback edition, mass market paperback).
  • Whiteley, L.S. Deadly Green. New York: New American Library (Signet Books), 1987 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Whittington, Harry. Burden's Mission. New York: Avon, 1968 (mass market paperback).
  • Whittington, Harry. Doomsday Mission. New York: Banner, 1967 (mass market paperback).
  • Whittington, Ruben Benjamin. Moonspinners, Viet Nam `65-`66. New York : Vantage Press, 1986 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Wiegert, W.J. Lords of the Leaf. New York: Carlton Press (Hearthstone Book), 1988 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Williams, Alan. The Tale of the Lazy Dog. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970 (1st U.S. printing, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Williams, Alan. The Tale of the Lazy Dog. London: Panther Books, 1970 (mass market paperback).
  • Williams, Alan. The Tale of the Lazy Dog. London, Great Britain: Panther Books, 1972, (c)1970 (mass market paperback).
  • Williams, Alan. The Tale of the Lazy Dog. New York: Pocket Books, 1973, (c)1970 (mass market paperback).
  • Williams, Bill. The Wasters. New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1971 (mass market paperback).
  • Williams, J.R. Snowing in Paradise. New York: Manor Books, 1979 (mass market paperback).
    [post-war Vet--"After the hell of Vietnam, all he had wanted was a quiet life on his boat."]
  • Williams, John A. Captain Blackman. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1972 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Williams, John A. Captain Blackman. New York: Bantam, 1974, (c)1972 (mass market paperback).
  • Williams, John A. Captain Blackman. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1988, 1977, (c)1972 (trade paperback).
  • Williams, Michael. Door-Gunner. New York: TOR Books, 1987 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Williams, Neil. Scorch. London, England: New English Library, 1975, (c)1974 (1st NEL paperback edition, mass market paperback).
  • Williams, T. Jeff. The Glory Hole. London, Great Britain: Corgi Books (Transworld Publishers), 1985, (c)1977 (printed & bound in Great Britain, mass market paperback).
  • Willson, David A. In the Army Now. Woodbridge, CT: Viet Nam Generation, Inc./Burning Cities Press, 1995 (trade paperback).
  • Willson, David A. REMF Diary: A Novel of the Vietnam War Zone.
    [unpublished manuscript], 1986.
  • Willson, David A. REMF Diary; A Novel of the Vietnam War Zone. Seattle, WA: Black Heron Press, 1988 (trade paperback).
  • Willson, David A. REMF Diary; A Novel of the Vietnam War Zone. Seattle, WA: Black Heron Press, 1988 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Willson, David A. The REMF Returns.
    [unpublished manuscript], 1990.
  • Willson, David A. The REMF Returns. Seattle: Black Heron Press, 1992 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Willson, David A. The REMF Returns. Seattle: Black Heron Press, 1992 (1st edition, trade paperback).
  • Wilson, Tom. Termite Hill. New York: Bantam Books, 1992 (trade paperback).
  • Wilson, Wayne. Loose Jam. New York: Delacorte Press, 1990 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
    [much of the novel takes place in Vietnam during the war--flashbacks throughout]
  • Wilson, William. The LBJ Brigade. New York: Pyramid Books, 1966 (mass market paperback).
  • Winn, David. Gangland. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Wise, Leonard. Doc's Legacy. New York: Richardson & Steirman, 1986 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
    ["...the only American GI to be charged with first degree murder in the Vietnam War."]
  • Wizard, Brian. Permission to Kill; Viet Nam `68 - `69. Port Douglas, Australia: Starquill Publisher, 1985, (c)1981, (c)1984.
    [from the Author's Note to Reader: "PERMISSION TO KILL is written as a fictitious account of my own personal experience in the Viet Nam conflict."]
  • Wolfe, Aaron. Invasion (Laser Books #9). Ontario, Canada: Laser Books, 1975 (mass market paperback).
  • Wolfe, Michael. The Chinese Fire Drill. New York: Harper & Row, 1976 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Wolfe, Michael. The Chinese Fire Drill. New York: Critic's Choice
    [Lorevan Publishing], 1986, (c)1976 (1st Critic's Choice edition, mass market paperback).
  • Wolfe, Michael. Man on a String. New York: Harper & Row, 1973 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Wolfe, Michael. Man on a String. New York: Manor Books, 1975, (c)1973 (mass market paperback).
  • Wolfe, Michael. The Two-Star Pigeon. New York: Harper & Row, 1975 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Wolff, Benjamin. Hyde and Seek. New York: Avon, 1984 (mass market paperback).
  • Wolff, Benjamin. Hyde in Deep Cover. New York: Avon, 1985 (1st Avon printing, mass market paperback).
  • Wolff, Tobias. The Barracks Thief. New York: Ecco Press, 1984 (1st edition, cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Wolitzer, Meg. Caribou. New York: Bantam Books, 1986, (c)1985 (mass market paperback).
    [young adult fiction]
  • Wolkoff, Judie. Where the Elf King Sings. Scarsdale, NY: Bradbury Press, 1980 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Wood, Ted. Live Bait. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
    [Vietnam Vet--flashbacks]
  • Wood, Ted. Live Bait. New York: Bantam Books, 1986, (c)1985 (mass market paperback).
  • Woods, William Crawford. The Killing Zone. New York: Harper & Row, 1970 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Woods, William Crawford. The Killing Zone. New York: Pocket Books, 1971, (c)1970 (mass market paperback).
  • Wright, Glover. The Hound of Heaven. New York: Arbor House, 1986, (c)1984 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Wright, Glover. The Hound of Heaven. New York: Jove Books, 1988, (c)1984 (mass market paperback).
  • Wright, Stephen. Meditations in Green. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1983 (cloth cover, dust jacket).
  • Wright, Stephen. Meditations in Green. New York: Bantam Books, 1984 (mass market paperback).

Y

  • Yellin, Linda. Such a Lovely Couple. New York: Warner Books, 1991 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
    [story of a man who went to Vietnam, and the woman he loves who protested the war--flashbacks and many references to the war.]

Z

  • Zec, Donald. The Face. London, UK: New English Library, 1980 (1st NEL Paperback edition, mass market paperback).
    [An entire village is massacred in 1970 Vietnam, along with one American journalist. The soldiers involved are acquited for lack of evidence. Then years later they begin showing up dead, posed with photos of the atrocities committed by them during the massacre. Plenty of scenes in Vietnam during the war, plus flashbacks, memories, etc.]
  • Zeybel, Henry. The First Ace. New York: Pocket Books, 1986 (1st Pocket Books printing, mass market paperback).
  • Zeybel, Henry. Gunship: Spectre of Death. New York: Pocket Books, 1987 (1st Pocket Books printing, mass market paperback).
  • Zielinski, David. A Genuine Monster. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990 (1st printing, cloth cover, dust jacket).
    [post-war novel, Vietnam Vet having flashbacks and memories throughout the novel]
  • Zlotnik, Donald. Eagles Cry Blood. New York: Zebra Books, 1986 (mass market paperback).
  • Zlotnik, Donald E. Fields of Honor #1: The Medal of Honor. New York: Signet Books (Penguin), 1990 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Zlotnik, Donald E. Fields of Honor #2: The Distinguished Service Cross. New York: Penguin Books (Signet Books--NAL), 1991 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Zlotnik, Donald E. Fields of Honor #3: The Silver Star. New York: Signet Books, 1991 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Zlotnik, Donald E. Fields of Honor #4: The Soldier's Medal. New York : Signet Books, 1991 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Zlotnik, Donald E. Fields of Honor #5: The Bronze Star. New York: Signet Books, 1992 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Zlotnik, Donald. Survivor of Nam: Baptism. New York: Popular Library, 1988 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Zlotnik, Donald E. Survivor of Nam #2: P.O.W. New York: Popular Library (Warner Books), 1988 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Zlotnik, Donald E. Survivor of Nam #3--Black Market. New York: Popular Library, 1988 (1st printing, mass market paperback).
  • Zlotnik, Donald E. Survivor of Nam #4: Court-Martial. New York: Warner Books (Popular Library edition), 1988 (1st printing, mass market paperback)
  • Zumbro, Ralph and Walker, James. Jungletracks. New York: Pocket Books, 1989 (1st Pocket Books printing, mass market paperback).
  • Zumbro, Ralph & Walker, James. Puma Force. New York: Pocket Books, 1991 (1st Pocket Books printing, mass market paperback).

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