Staff Picks

Here are our favorite books, in all categories, about the Sixties and the Viet Nam war. If the name of the author is highlighted, we have fiction by that writer in our online collection.

Nonfiction

Amato, Joe	Bookend: Anatomies of a Virtual Self
Bibby, Michael	Hearts and Minds: Bodies, Poetry, and Resistance in the Vietnam Era
Buzzanco, Robert and Asad Ismi	Informed Dissent: Three Generals and the Viet Nam War *A Viet Nam Generation publication. By purchasing this book, you support the Sixties Project.
Christopher, Renny	The Vietnam War / The American War: Images and Representations in Euro-American and Vietnamese Exile Narratives
Doyle, Jeff and Jeff Grey	Australia R&R: Representations and Reinterpretations of Australia's War in Viet Nam *A Viet Nam Generation publication. By purchasing this book, you support the Sixties Project.
Erenrich, Susie, ed.	Kent and Jackson State: 1970-1990 *A Viet Nam Generation publication. By purchasing this book, you support the Sixties Project.
Franklin, H. Bruce	MIA or Mythmaking in America
Gibson, James William	Warrior Dreams: Violence and Manhood in Post-Vietnam America
Gotera, Vince	Radical Visions: Poetry by Vietnam Veterans
Jeffords, Susan	Hard Bodies: Hollywood Masculinity in the Reagan Era
	Seeing Through the Media: The Persian Gulf War
Lawson, Jacqueline, ed.	Gender & the War: Men, Women and Viet Nam *A Viet Nam Generation publication. By purchasing this book, you support the Sixties Project.
Lyons, Paul	Class of '66: Living in Suburban Middle America
	New Left, New Right and the Legacy of the Sixties
Morgan, Edward P.	60s Experience: Hard Lessons About Modern America
Stein, Jeff	A Murder in Wartime : The Untold Spy Story That Changed the Course of the Vietnam War
Tal, Kalí	Worlds of Hurt: Reading the Literatures of Trauma
Tal, Kalí and Dan Duffy, eds.	Nobody Gets Off The Bus: The Viet Nam Generation Big Book *A Viet Nam Generation publication. By purchasing this book, you support the Sixties Project.
Tal, Kalí, ed.	The Future of the Past: Revisionism and Vietnam *A Viet Nam Generation publication. By purchasing this book, you support the Sixties Project.
Tischler, Barbara	Sights on the Sixties
Williams, Tony	Hearths of Darkness: The Family in American Horror Films
Williams, Tony & Jean-Jacques Malo	Vietnam War Films: Over 600 Features, Made-For-TV, Pilot and Short Movies, 1939-1992, from the United States, Vietnam, France, Belgium, Australia
Young, Marilyn	The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990

Fiction and Autobiography

Baber, Asa	The Land of a Million Elephants *A Viet Nam Generation publication. By purchasing this book, you support the Sixties Project.
Barker, Dan	Warrior of the Heart *A Viet Nam Generation publication. By purchasing this book, you support the Sixties Project.
Ehrhart, W.D.	Busted: A Vietnam Veteran in Nixon's America
	Going Back: An Ex-Marine Returns to Vietnam
	In the Shadow of Vietnam: Essays, 1977-1991
	Passing Time: Memoir of a Vietnam Veteran Against the War
	Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir
Flynn, Robert	A Personal War in Vietnam
Gurvis, Sandra, ed.	Swords Into Plowshares: An Anthology of Antiwar Movement Literature *A Viet Nam Generation publication. By purchasing this book, you support the Sixties Project.
Karlin, Wayne	Prisoners
Nguyen Huy Thiep	The General Retires and Other Stories
Shields, Bill	Rosey the Baby Killer and Other Stories
Spencer, Ernest	Welcome to Vietnam, Macho Man
Willson, David	In the Army Now *A Viet Nam Generation publication. By purchasing this book, you support the Sixties Project.
	REMF Diary: A Novel of the Vietnam War Zone
	The REMF Returns

Poetry

Amato, Joe	Symptoms of a Finer Age *A Viet Nam Generation publication. By purchasing this book, you support the Sixties Project.
Balaban, John	Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New & Selected Poems
Christopher, Renny	Viet Nam & California *A Viet Nam Generation publication. By purchasing this book, you support the Sixties Project.
Coleman, Horace	In The Grass *A Viet Nam Generation publication. By purchasing this book, you support the Sixties Project.
Connolly, David	Lost in America *A Viet Nam Generation publication. By purchasing this book, you support the Sixties Project.
Ehrhart, W.D.	Just for Laughs *A Viet Nam Generation publication. By purchasing this book, you support the Sixties Project.
	The Outer Banks & Other Poems
Maggie Jaffe	How The West Was One *A Viet Nam Generation publication. By purchasing this book, you support the Sixties Project.
	7th Circle
Jason, Philip K.	The Separation *A Viet Nam Generation publication. By purchasing this book, you support the Sixties Project.
Liebler, M.L.	Stripping the Adult Century Bare *A Viet Nam Generation publication. By purchasing this book, you support the Sixties Project.
Quintana, Leroy	The Great Whirl of Exile
	The History of Home
	Interrogations *A Viet Nam Generation publication. By purchasing this book, you support the Sixties Project.
	My Hair Turning Grey
	Now and Then, Often, Today
Richman, Elliot	Walk On, Trooper *A Viet Nam Generation publication. By purchasing this book, you support the Sixties Project.
Ritterbusch, Dale	Lessons Learned *A Viet Nam Generation publication. By purchasing this book, you support the Sixties Project.
Shields, Bill	Human Shrapnel
	The Southeast Asian Book of the Dead
Vancil, David	The Homesick Patrol *A Viet Nam Generation publication. By purchasing this book, you support the Sixties Project.