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Guide to MS677 War-related publications

Carolina Mercado

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MS 677

Vietnam War-related publications

1962 – 2010s Span Dates, 1966 – 1980s Bulk Dates

3 feet (linear)

Inventory by Carolina Mercado July 30, 2019; January 31, 2020

Donated by Howard McCord and Dennis Bixler-Marquez.

Citation: -related publications, MS677, C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department. The University of Texas at El Paso Library.

C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department University of Texas at El Paso

Historical Sketch

The Vietnam War (1954 – 1975) was a military conflict between the communist North Vietnamese (Viet Cong) and its allies and the government of and its allies (mainly the ). The North Vietnamese sought to unify Vietnam under a communist regime, while South Vietnam wanted to retain its government, which was aligned with the West. The war was also a result of the ongoing Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States. On July 2, 1976 the North Vietnamese united the country after the South Vietnamese government surrendered on April 30. Millions of soldiers and civilians were killed during the Vietnam War.

[Source: Encyclopedia Britannica, “The Vietnam War,” accessed on January 31, 2020, https://www.britannica.com/event/Vietnam-War]

Series Description or Arrangement

This collection was left in the order found by the archivist.

Scope and Content Notes

This collection contains paperbacks, pamphlets, and magazines relating to the Vietnam War. The collections includes works by Vietnam veterans and anti-war literature. The materials date 1962 – 2010s.

Provenance Statement

Donated by Howard McCord. Two publications, The Helicopter War and Great Last Stands of Vietnam, were donated by Dr. Dennis Bixler-Marquez in January 2020.

Restrictions

No rights to publications.

Literary Rights Statement

Permission to publish material from the Vietnam War-related publications must be obtained from the C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department, the University of Texas at El Paso Library. Citation should read, Vietnam War-related publications, MS677, C. L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department, the University of Texas at El Paso Library.

Notes to the Researcher

Some of the paperbacks are brittle; please handle with care.

See also:

SLA Marshall papers, MS186

Military History book collection

Container List

Box # Book # Title Author Publisher Date 1 1 One to Count Cadence James Crumley Random House; 1984 NY 1 2 The Fort Hood Three: The case Fort Hood Three Fort Hood Three July 1966 of the three G.I.’s who said “no” Defense Committee Defense to the war in Vietnam Committee 1 3 The Military-Industrial Complex Omer L. Carey Washington State 1969 and U.S. Foreign Policy University Press 1 4 Survivors Zalin Grant Berkley Books, NY November 1985 1 5 A Pocket Guide to Viet-nam Armed Forces Armed Forces December Information and Information and 6, 1962 Education Education 1 6 Run Between the Raindrops Dale A. Dye AVON Books September 1985 1 7 The Dellums Committee The Citizens Vintage Books; 1972 Hearings on War Crimes in Commission of Random House, Vietnam Inquiry (editors) NY 1 8 How the United States Got Robert Scheer The Fund for the 1965 Involved in Vietnam Republic, Inc. 1 9 G.I.’s and the Fight Against Mary Alice Waters The Young January War Socialist, NY 1967 1 10 How to Get Out of Vietnam John Kenneth The New American November Galbraith Library, Inc. 1967 1 11 The Unspeakable War Charlotte Labor Committee Around Pomerantz; Howard for Peace In 1966 Kaplan (Editors) Vietnam 1 12 The Winter Soldier The Vietnam Beacon Press 1972 Investigation Veterans Against the War 1 13 Platoon Leader James R Bantam Books Inc. April 1986 McDonough 1 14 Meditations in Green Stephen Wright Bantam Books Inc. November 1984

1 15 How Audie Murphy Died in McAvoy Layne Anchor Books 1973 Vietnam 1 16 M The New American December Library 1967 1 17 Bat-21 William C. Bantam Book; September Anderson Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1983 1 18 A Track of Time Smith Hempstone Fawcett Crest 1966 Book 1 19 Song Vam Sat River of Death James Butler Mojave Books 1979 1 20 Flying Tiger Chennault of China Robert Lee Scott, The Berkley 1959 Jr. Publishing Corporation 1 21 Marine Sniper 93 Confirmed Charles Henderson Berkley Books, January Kills New York 1988 1 22 The Green Berets Robin Moore Avon Books, NY 1965 1 23 The Killing at Ngo Tho Gene D. Moore Pyramid May 1968 Publications, Inc. 1 24 From OSS to Green Berets Col. Aaron Bank, Pockets Books 1987 U.S.S.[RET.] New York 1 25 Cadences: The Jody Call Book, Sandee Shaffer Daring Books; 1983 No.1 Johnson (editor) Canton, Ohio 1 26 The Short-Timers Gustav Hasford Bantam Books 1980 1 27 Where Have All the Soldiers Con Sellers Pyramid February Gone? Publications, Inc. 1969 1 28 The Betrayal William R. Corson ACE Books, Inc. 1968 1 29 The Grunts Charles R. Berkley Books, July 1984 Anderson New York 1 30 Tim O’Brien Dell Publishing 1978 Co., Inc. 1 31 Targets Donald E. McQuinn Tom Doherty March 1983 Associates 1 32 The Prisoners of Quai Dong Victor Kolpacoff The New American 1967 Library 1 33 The Friendly Dead T. Grady Gallant Kensington March 1980 Publishing Corp. 1 34 My Secret War Richard S. Drury St. Martin’s Press 1986 1 35 One Soldier John H. Shook Bantam Books Inc. August 1986 1 36 Gardens of Stone Nicholas Proffitt Tom Doherty August Associates 1984 1 37 The Defector Charles ACE Books, Inc. 1970 Collingwood 1 38 The Advisors Curt Rich Kensington 1985 Publishing Corp. 1 39 Seven Firefights in Vietnam John A. Cash, John Bantam Books Inc. December

Albright, and Allan 1985 W. Sandstrum 1 40 If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Tim O’Brien Dell Publishing 1973 Me Up and Ship Me Home Co., Inc. 1 41 Better Times Than These Winston Groom Berkley Books, September New York 1979 1 42 A Tract of Time Smith Hempstone Fawcett September Publications, Inc. 1966 1 43 Vietnam Doctor Dr. James W. The New American November Turpin with Al Library 1967 Hirshberg 1 44 Night Flight to Hanoi Daniel Berrigan Harper and Row 1971 Publishers Inc. 1 45 War Comes to Long An Jeffrey Race University of 1973 California Press 1 46 The Torture of Mothers Truman Nelson The Garrison Press 1965 (Introduction by Maxwell Geismar) 1 47 In the Name of America Seymour Melman The Turnpike 1968 and Richard Falk Press, Inc. (contributors) 1 48 Voices from the Plain of Jars: Complies, with an Harper and Row 1972 Life Under an Air War Introduction and Publishers Preface, by Fred Branfman 1 49 The Face of War C. Nicholls and 1967 Company Ltd.

1 50 The 13th Valley John M. Del Bantam Books Inc. 1983 Vecchio 1 51 The Boy Who Picked the Charles Nelson Avon Books, NY 1982 Bullets Up 1 52 The LBJ Brigade William Wilson Pyramid Books 1966 1 53 Vietnam! Vietnam! In Felix Greene Fulton Publishing 1966 Photographs and Text Company 2 54 Maggot Robert Flanagan Warner Books, Inc. November 1971 2 55 The End of the Line the Siege Robert Pisor Ballantine Books December of Khe Sanh 1983 2 56 The Dellums Committee The Citizens Vintage Books; May 1972 Hearings on War Crimes in Commission of Random House, Vietnam Inquiry (editors) NY 2 57 And Brave Men, Too Timothy S. Lowry Berkley Books, August New York 1986 2 58 The Only War We’ve Got Derek Maitland William Morrow July 1971

and Company, Inc. 2 59 One Very Hot Day Avon Books, NY February 1969 2 60 Born on the Fourth of July Ron Kovic Pocket Books New July 1977 York 2 61 Into a Black Sun Takeshi Kaiko Harper and Row 1983 Publishers Inc. 2 62 Battlefield Peter Derrig Paperback Library, December Inc. New York 1967 2 63 The Lionheads Josiah Bunting Popular Library 1972 Books 2 64 Run Between the Raindrops Dale A. Dye Avon Books, NY 1985 2 65 The Tunnels of Cuchi Tom Mangold and Berkley Books, 1985 John Penycate New York 2 66 Giai Pong! The Fall and Tiziano Terzani Ballantine Books, 1976 Liberation of Saigon NY

2 67 War and Peace in the Global Co-ordinated by Bantam Books Inc. 1968 Village Marshall McLuhan Jerome Agel Quentin Fiore 2 68 Everything We Had: An Oral Al Santoli Ballantine Books, 1981 History of the Vietnam War by NY Thirty-three American Soldiers Who Faught It 2 69 The Village of Ben Suc Vintage Books; February Random House, 1968 NY 2 70 One Very Hot Day David Halberstam Warner Books, Inc. June 1984 2 71 The Passing of the Night: Ny Colonel Robinson Ballantine Books, January Seven Years as a Prisoner of Risner NY 1975 the North Vietnamese 2 72 Shaw’s Nam John Carn Benjamin Books April 1984 2 73 Torture: Cancer of Democracy, Pierre Vidal-Naquet Penguin Books Inc. 1963 France and Algeria 1954-62 2 74 The Military Half Jonathan Schell Alfred A. Knopf, June 1968 Inc. 2 75 The Secret Diary of Ho Chi Lanh Ba Lancer Books Inc. 1968 Minh’s Daughter 2 76 The Short-Timers Gustav Hasford Bantam Books 1980 2 77 A Rumor of War Philip Caputo Ballantine Books, March 1981 NY 2 78 Dispatches Avon Books, NY March 1978 2 79 The United States Marine Compiled and Ace Books 1973 Corps in World War II Volume I Edited by S. E. Smith

2 80 On Strategy: A Critical Analysis Harry G. Summers, Dell Publishing June 1984 of the Vietnam War Jr. Colonel of Co., Inc. Infantry 2 81 Close Quarters Larry Heinemann Popular Library 1977 Books 2 82 Catch-22 Joseph Heller Dell Publishing October Co., Inc. 1981 2 83 Good Men Die Twin Circle 1969 Publishing Company 2 84 War Story Jim Morris Dell Publishing March 1985 Co., Inc.

2 85 Do You Want to Live Forever! Richard Suskind Bantam Books Inc. November 1964 2 86 Bloods: An Oral History of the Wallace Terry Ballantine Books, August Vietnam War by Black Veterans NY 1985 2 87 Vietnam Combat Phil Hirsch (Editor) Pyramid Books March 1968 2 88 Castle Keep William Eastlake Fawcett Crest June 1966 Book 2 89 Ballantine Books, October NY 1975 2 90 The United States Marine Compiled and Ace Books 1969 Corps in World War II Vol. II Edited by S.E. Smith 2 91 Great Last Stands of Vietnam Historynet.com 2010s? 2 92 The Helicopter War Historynet.com 2010s?