 | We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.01 The first time I'd ever had a glimpse of the hell of battle. Sobering
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 | Baptism: a Vietnam Memoir by Larry Gwin
Buy new: £4.77 / Used from: £2.32 Painful but special - also about Ia Drang.
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 | Platoon Leader: A Memoir of Command in Combat by James R. McDonough
Buy new: £3.72 / Used from: £1.40 Unforgettable characters and the first time I'd read about such a situation.
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 | Chickenhawk by Robert Mason
Buy new: £5.38 / Used from: £0.01 This list would be incomplete without this account - a classic.
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 | Vietnam: The Definitive Oral History, Told from All Sides by Christian G. Appy
Buy used from: £15.80 This contains, among others, accounts by Oliver Stone and other authors.
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 | Xin Loi, Viet Nam: Thirty-one Months of War - A Soldier's Memoir by Al Sever
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £1.51 A detailed honest account.
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 | Warriors: An Infantryman's Memoir of Vietnam by Robert Tonsetic
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £3.43 Again, a detailed honest account.
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 | Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War by Michael Maclear
Buy used from: £0.01 The book that started my obsession with this conflict.
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 | Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Al Santoli
Buy new: £5.39 / Used from: £0.01 A smaller scale oral history from the US soldiers' perspective.
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 | Ripcord: The Screaming Eagle Under Siege, Vietnam, 1970 by Keith William Nolan
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £1.35 Complicated and will probably require a second read but worth it.
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 | Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam by Lynda Van Devanter
Buy new: £21.38 / Used from: £16.63 The perspective of a nurse before, during and after.
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 | Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow
Buy used from: £1.58 Essential.
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 | A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan
Buy used from: £1.87 Another essential.
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 | Dispatches (Picador) by Michael Herr
Buy new: £4.85 / Used from: £0.01 Well regarded although I found the author unsympathetic, considering what others were going through.
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 | A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £3.43 Another essential.
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 | Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam by B Edelman
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £4.54 What it was like.
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 | Four Hours in My Lai: A War Crime and Its Aftermath by BILTON
Buy used from: £5.78 The most shocking thing is the photographer who did little to help but has profited since from his photographs.
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 | Tiger Force by Mitch Weiss
Buy new: £5.22 / Used from: £0.01 Like My Lai, it makes you wonder if we know what we do when we send young men to war.
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 | The Rough Guide to Vietnam (Rough Guide Travel Guides) by Jan Dodd
Buy used from: £8.99 Finally, visit Vietnam and meet the wonderful people there.
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