Zur Einführung immer noch am besten die "Klassiker" der Journalisten Scholl-Latour (96), Karnow (13) und Sheehan (98). Dazu ergänzend Herring (11), Young (20), Young/Fitzgerald/Grunfeld (33), Schulzinger (18) und Frey (89). Sehr nützlich auch Tucker (24)
1 Addington, Larry H.: America's War in Vietnam. A Short Narrative History. Bloomington, Indiana 2000.
2 Anderson, David L. (ed.): Shadow on the White House: Presidents and the Vietnam War, 1945-1975. Lawrence, Kansas 1993.
3 Appy, Christian G.: Patriots. The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides. New York 2003.
4 Bonds, Ray (ed.): The Vietnam War. The illustrated history of the conflict in Southeast Asia. London 1979.
5 Charlton, Michael/Moncrieff, Anthony: Many Reasons Why: American Involvement in Vietnam. New York 1989.
6 Davidson, Philipp B.: Vietnam at War. The History: 1946-1975. New York/Oxford 1988.
7 De Groot, Gerard J.: A Noble Cause: America and the Vietnam War, 1945-1975. Lawrence, Kansas 1993.
8 Duiker, William J.: US-Containment Policy and the Conflict in Indochina. Stanford, California 1994.
9 Edmonds, Anthony O.: The War in Vietnam. Westport, Connecticut/London 1998.
10 Hall, Mitchell: The Vietnam War. New York 2000.
11 Herring, George C.: America's Longest War. The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975. New York 20024 (mit einem Kapitel "9/11/01: The End of the Vietnam Syndrome?" Nur online unter http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072417552).
12 Hesse, Gary R.: Vietnam and the United States. Origins and Legacy of War. Boston 1990.
13 Karnow, Stanley: Vietnam. A History. 1. Auflage New York 1983.
14 Kolko, Gabriel: Anatomy of a War: Vietnam, the United States and the Modern Historical Experience. New York 1985.
15 Langguth, A. J.: Our Vietnam. The War 1954-1975. New York 2000.
16 Lind, Michael: Vietnam. The Necessary War. A Reinterpretation of America's Most Disastrous Military Conflict. New York 1999.
17 Ruane, Kevin: War and revolution in Vietnam, 1930-75. London 1998.
18 Schulzinger, Robert D.: A Time for War. The United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975. New York/Oxford 1997.
19 Wiest, Andrew: The Vietnam War 1956-1975. Oxford 2002.
20 Young, Marilyn B.: The Vietnam Wars 1945-1990. New York 1991.
NACHSCHLAGEWERKE/ATLANTEN
21 Leepson, Marc (ed.): Webster's New World Dictionary of the Vietnam War. New York 1999.
22 MoÑ—se, Edwin E.: Historical Dictionary of the Vietnam War. Lanham, Maryland 2001.
23 Summers, Harry G.: Historical Atlas of the Vietnam War. Boston/New York 1995.
24 Tucker, Spencer C. (ed.): The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War. Oxford/New York 2000.
25 Foreign Relations of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1981-2003; mehrere Bände: Eisenhower (3), Kennedy (4), Johnson (7), zum Teil auch online (siehe 108).
26 Gettleman, Marvin E./Franklin, Jane/Young, Marylin B./Franklin, H. Bruce (eds.): Vietnam and America: A Documented History. New York 1995.
27 Herring, George C. (ed.): The Secret Diplomacy of the Vietnam War: The negotiating Volumes of the Pentagon Papers. Austin, Texas, 1983.
28 Katsiaficas, George (ed.): Vietnam Documents: American and Vietnamese Views of the War. New York 1992.
29 Kissinger, Henry: Crisis. The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises. New York 2003 (Yom Kippur-Krieg und April 1975 in Vietnam).
30 Mooney, James W./West, Thomas R. (eds.): Vietnam: A History and Anthology. New York 1994.
31 Porter, Gareth (ed.): Vietnam. The Definitive Documentation of Human Decisions, 2 Bde. New York 1989; (Taschenbuchausgabe: Vietnam. A History in Documents. New York 1979.
32 Ruane, Kevin (ed.): The Vietnam wars. Manchester/New York 2000.
33 Young, Marilyn B./Fitzgerald John J./Grunfeld A. Tom (eds.): The Vietnam War. A History in Documents. Oxford/New York 2002.
34 Cable, James: The Geneva Conference of 1954 on Indochina. London 1986.
35 Dalloz, J.: The War in Indochina, 1945-1954. New York 1990.
36 Gardner, Lloyd C.: Approaching Vietnam: From World War II through Dienbienphu, 1941-1954. New York 1988.
37 Kaplan, Lawrence S./Artaud, Denise/Rubin, Mark R. (eds.): Dien Bien Phu and the Crisis of Franco-American Relations, 1954-1955. Wilmington, Delaware 1990.
38 Marr, David G: Vietnam 1945. The Quest for Power. Berkeley 1995.
39 Shipway, Martin: The Road to War: France and Vietnam, 1944-1947. Oxford 1998.
40 Simpson, Howard: Dien Bien Phu. The Epic Battle America forgot. Washington/London 1994.
EISENHOWER, Kennedy, DIEM
41 Anderson, David L.: Trapped By Success: The Eisenhower Administration and the Vietnam War, 1953-1961. New York 1991.
42 Chomsky, Noam: Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture. London 1993.
43 Freedman, Lawrence: Kennedy's Wars. Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam. Oxford 2000.
44 Halverstam, David: The Best and the Brightest. New York 1993.
45 Jones, Howard: Death of a Generation. How the Assassination of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War. Oxford 2003.
46 Kaiser, David: American Tragedy. Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War. Cambridge, Mass., 2000.
47 Longevall, Frederik: Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of the War in Vietnam. Berkeley, Cal., 1999.
48 Newman, J,: JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power. New York 1989.
49 Prados, John: JFK and the Diem Coup. 29 Dokumente im National Security Archive, Washington, D.C., 2003: online unter
50 Anderson, Terry: The Sixties. New York 1999.
51 Arnold, James R.: The Tet Offensive 1968. Botley 1990.
52 Barrett, David M. (ed.): Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam Papers. College Station, Texas, 1995.
53 Bernstein, Irving: Guns or Butter? The Presidency of Lyndon Johnson. Oxford 1996.
54 Beschloss, Michael (ed.): Taking Charge. The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964. New York 1997.
55 Beschloss, Michael (ed.): Reaching for Glory. Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965. New York 2001.
56 Brinkley, Douglas: Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War. New York 2004.
57 Dallek, Robert: Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times. New York 1998.
58 Fitzgerald, Francis: Fire in the Lake. The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. New York 1972, 2002.
59 Ford, Harold P.: CIA and the Vietnam Policymakers: Three Episodes 1962-1968. Washington, D.C., 1998 (auch online:
60 Gardner, Lloyd C: Pay Any Price: Lyndon B. Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam. Chicago 1995.
61 Gilbert, Marc Jason/Head William (eds.): The Tet Offensive. Westport, Connecticut, 1996.
62 Herring, George C.: LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War. Austin, Texas, 1994.
63 Hunt, Michael H.: Lyndon Johnson's War. America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968. New York 1996.
64 Hunt, Richard: Pacification: The American Struggle for Vietnam's Hearts and Minds. Berkeley 1995.
65 Maraniss, David: They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace Vietnam and America October 1967. New York 2003.
66 MoÑ—se, Edwin: Tonking Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1996.
67 Oberdorfer, Don: Tet! The Turning Point in the Vietnam War. Baltimore 1971, 2001.
68 Steininger, Rolf: "The Americans are in a Hopeless Position." Great Britain and the War in Vietnam, in: Diplomacy and Statecraft 7 (1996), pp. 404-435.
69 VanDeMark, Brian: Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War. Oxford 1991.
70 Berman, Larry: No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger, and Betrayal in Vietnam. New York 2001.
71 Ellsberg, Daniel: Secrets. A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers. New York 2002.
72 Kimball, Jeffrey: The Vietnam War Files. Uncovering the Secret History of Nixon Era-Strategy. Lawrence, Kansas, 2003.
73 Reeves, Richard: President Nixon. Alone in the White House. New York 2001.
SOWJETUNION/CHINA/NORDVIETNAM
74 Duiker, William J.: Ho Chi Minh. New York 2000.
75 Duiker, William J.: The Communist Road to Power in Vietnam. Boulder, Colorado, 1996.
76 Gaiduk, Ilya: The Soviet Union and the Vietnam War. Chicago 1996.
77 Zhai, Qiang: China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950-1975. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 2000.
78 Zhai, Qiang: The Dragon, the Lion and the Eagle: Chinese-British-American Relations, 1949-58. Kent, Ohio, 1996.
79 Buzzanco, Robert: Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life. Malden, Mass., 1999.
80 Divine, Robert A.: Vietnam Reconsidered, in: Diplomatic History 12 (1988), S. 79-93.
81 Gilbert, Marc Jason (ed.): Why the North Won the Vietnam War. New York 2002.
82 Hellmann, Robert A.: American Myth and the Legacy of Vietnam. New York 1986.
83 Hess, Gary R.: The Unending Debate: Historians and the Vietnam War, in: Diplomatic History 18 (1994), pp. 239-264.
84 Record, Jeffrey: The Wrong Way: Why We Lost in Vietnam. Annapolis, Maryland, 1998.
ANTIKRIEGSBEWEGUNG/FILME, ETC.
85 Dittmar, Linda/Michaud, Gene (eds.): From Hanoi to Hollywood: The Vietnam War in American Film. New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1990.
86 Hunt, Andrew: The Tuning. A History of Vietnam Veterans Against the War. New York 2001.
87 Wells, Tom: The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam. Berkeley 1994.
88 Apokalypse Vietnam. Das Buch zur Fernsehserie. Berlin 2000.
89 Frey, Marc: Geschichte des Vietnamkrieges. Die Tragödie in Asien und das Ende des amerikanischen Traums. München 20026.
90 Hölzl, Gebhard/Peipp, Matthias: Fahr' zur Hölle, Charlie! Der Vietnamkrieg im amerikanischen Film. München 1991.
91 Kissinger, Henry A.: Memoiren 1968-1973. München 1979.
92 Kissinger, Henry A.: Memoiren 1973-1974. München 1982. (Engl. Original: White House Years)
93 McNamara, Robert S.: Vietnam: Das Trauma einer Weltmacht. Hamburg 1995. (Engl. Original: In Retrospect. The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. New York 1995.)
94 Nixon, Richard M.: Memoiren. Köln 1978.
95 Reinecke, Stefan: Hollywood goes Vietnam. Der Vietnamkrieg im US-amerikanischen Film. Marburg 1993.
96 Scholl-Latour, Peter: Der Tod im Reisfeld. Dreißig Jahre Krieg in Indochina. 1. Aufl. Stuttgart 1979.
97 Shawcross, William: Schattenkrieg. Kissinger, Nixon und die Zerstörung Kambodschas. West-Berlin 1980. (Engl. Original: Sideshow - Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia. New York 1979.)
98 Sheehan, Neil: Die Große Lüge. John Paul Vann und Amerika in Vietnam. München 1992. (Engl. Original: A Bright Shining Lie. John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. New York 1998.)
99 Steininger, Rolf: Großbritannien und der Vietnamkrieg 1964/65, in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 45 (1997), S. 589-628.
100 Kothmann, Hella/Bühler, Wolf-Eckart: Vietnam-Handbuch. Bielefeld 1992, 2002 (exzellenter Reiseführer).
1 Apokalypse Vietnam, MDR 2000.
2 Peter Arnett/Ian McLeod: Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War, 11 x 45 Min.
3 Peter Scholl-Latour: Der Ritt auf dem Drachen. 4 x 45 Min., ZDF 1982.
4 The American Experience, BBC-Serie.
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