Vietnam + Vietnamese history

Book Reviews

• Larry H. Addington: America's War in Vietnam
  A Short Narrative History
• Bao Ninh: The Sorrow of War*
  - a novel by a North Vietnamese soldier
• Pierre Brocheux, Daniel Hémery: Indochina
  An Ambiguous Colonization 1858-1954
• David Chanoff, Doan Van Toai: Vietnam
  A Portrait of its People at War
• Duong Thu Huong: Novel Without a Name
  - a North Vietnamese soldier's story
• Christopher J. Koch: Highways to a War
  - a novel about a war photographer in Vietnam and Cambodia
• Henry Maurer: Strange Ground
  An Oral History of Americans in Vietnam 1945-1975
• Eleanor Jane Sterling, et al.: Vietnam: A Natural History
  - biogeography, flora and fauna, and conservation
• Jon Swain: River of Time
  - a memoir of Cambodia and Vietnam at war
• Stein Tønnesson: Vietnam 1946
  How the War Began

See also: China | Southeast Asia

My parents were opposed to the Vietnam War — I went on my first protest marches "in utero" — and my earliest reading on the subject consisted of books by Wilfred Burchett.