Literature by Vets
(includes literature by vets; journalism; history; memoir; short stories; poetry; novels, and resources on moral injury)
Ackerman, Elliot. Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning (memoir)
Beesley, Stanley W. Vietnam: The Heartland Remembers
Bissell, Tom. The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam (memoir)
Blasim, Hassan. The Corpse Exhibition (short stories)
Bushy, Dave. Quoc Pham’s Story - The World Looked Away: Vietnam After the War
Carroll, Andrew. War Letters
Chong, Denise. The Girl in the Picture (history)
Ciocia, Stefania. Vietnam and Beyond: Tim O’Brien and the Power of Storytelling
Dakin, Brett. Another Quiet American (memoir)
Fallon, Siobhan. You Know When the Men Are Gone (short stories)
Filkins, Dexter. The Forever War (history/journalism)
Finkel, David. Thank You For Your Service (history/journalism)
____________.The Good Soldiers (history/journalism)
Gourevitch, Philip and Morris, Errol. The Ballad of Abu Ghraib (history/journalism)
Graham, Larry Kent. Moral Injury
Greene, Graham, The Quiet American (novel)
Herr, Michael. Dispatches (memoir)
Junger, Sebastian. Tribe (history/journalism)
______________. War (history/journalism)
Klay, Phil. Redeployment
Marlantes, Karl. What It Is Like to Go to War (memoir)
Meagher & Pryer. War and Moral Injury: A Reader
Mogelson, Luke. These Heroic, Happy Dead (short stories)
Ninh, Bao. The Sorrow of War (novel)
O’Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried
__________. Going After Cacciato
__________. In the Lake of the Woods
O’Brien, Tim. Northern Lights
__________. If I Die in A Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
__________. Maybe Dad’s Book
Palmer, H.C. Feet of the Messenger (poetry)
Partridge, Elizabeth. Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam (history)
Polner, Murray. No Victory Parades: The Return of the Vietnam Veteran (history)
Powers, Kevin. The Yellow Birds (novel)
___________. Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting (poetry)
Rabe, David. The Road At Night (novel)
Ramsay, Nancy J. and Doehring, Carrie, Eds. Military Moral Injury and Spiritual Care
Samet, Elizabeth D. Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point
Scranton, Roy and Gallagher, Matt, eds. Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War
Sheehan, Neil. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (history)
Todd, Jack. Desertion: In the Time of Vietnam (memoir)
Trussoni, Danielle. Falling Through the Earth (memoir)
Turner, Brian. Here, Bullet (poetry)
___________. Phantom Noise (poetry)
___________. My Life As A Foreign Country (memoir)