Mike 3/7 References

Reading List

All the books I have read and recommend on this topic. Essential Vietnam War reading and my favorites.

Memoirs

• I Heard My Country Calling

• Across the Fence: The Secret War in Vietnam

• Baptism: A Vietnam Memoir

• About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior

• Silent Heroes

• Run Through the Jungle: Real Adventures in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne Brigade

• A Sniper in the Arizona: 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines in the Arizona Territory, 1967

• Down South: One Tour in Vietnam

• The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War

• Vietnam Rough Riders: A Convoy Commander's Memoir

Psychology/Reflective

• What It’s Like To Go To War

• On KillingOn Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

• Extreme Ownership

Remaining Reading List

• A Rumor of War

• Born on the Fourth of July

• Guns Up! A Firsthand Account of the Vietnam War

• Hill 488

• SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam

• Loon: A Marine Story

• The Nightingale's Song

• Da Nang Diary: A Forward Air Controller's Gunsight View of Flying with SOG

• Chickenhawk

• Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills

• The Hill Fights: The First Battle of Khe Sanh

• Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War

• The Odyssey of Echo Company: The 1968 Tet Offensive and the Epic Battle to Survive the Vietnam War

• The Quiet American

• Nam-Sense: Surviving Vietnam with the 101st Airborne

• The Best and the Brightest

Academic /
History

• Where The Domino Fell

• Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides

• The Vietnam War Almanac

• The Tet Offensive: Intelligence Failure in War