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1997. 

Haas, Mary E.
    Women's Perspectives on the Vietnam War

This is a 32 page study guide.  1991  

	Hadley, Frank L. Song of the Loon

From the press release: 

". . . explores the psychological conflict that many men felt while involved in the VIETMAN WAR. It is a story of love,  action, and myth, which when combined, brings a wonderful novel to life."

Haldeman, Joe  [interview] [author's website]
      1968 : A Novel

Set in the Central Highlands before Tet.  This is a novel, but not science fiction. The well-known author is a vet.  

     Forever Peace

Per the author: "My latest novel, . . .  is strongly influenced by Vietnam. It's set during a First World/Third World war fifty years from now.  It won the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Awards for "best science fiction novel of the year," the first novel to win all three in the past 22 years.  (The Hugo is voted upon by readers; the Nebula by writers, and the John W. Campbell by critics and academics.)'"  

    Forever War

I'm throwing this in even though it is not "about Vietnam," although it is about war and I know of teachers who include it when they teach Vietnam literature, but because it is the author's best known work so far and is a science fiction classic.  

     Vietnam & Other Alien Worlds

A collection of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. 

Hall, Tim
    Vietnam : A Portrait

1996. Travel photographs. 

Hammel, Eric  [author's website]
    Fire in the Streets: The Battle for Hue, Tet 1968

1996.   

Hammel, Eric and R.D. Camp
    Lima-6 : A Marine Company Commander in Vietnam

1990.   

Hamilton, Donald W.
    The Art of Insurgency : American Military Policy and the Failure of Strategy in Southeast Asia

Hansel, Sarah, and Ann Steidle, Grace Zaczek, and Ron Zaczek, editors.
    Soldier's Heart: Survivors' Views of Combat Trauma

A collection of prose, poetry, and art by veterans, male and female.

Hansen, J.T.; A. Susan Owen and Michael Patrick Madden.
    Parallels : The Soldiers' Knowledge and the Oral History of Contemporary Warfare

I enjoyed this book which compared the experience of Russian veterans of Afghanistan with the experience of Vietnam veterans. Most, if not all, of the Vietnam veterans are participants in a PTSD program. The interviews were very graphic. Includes the story of nurse Nikki Nicol. 

Harris, David
    Our War : What We Did in Vietnam and What It Did to Us

1996. This is by the anti-war activist. 

Harrison, Marshall
    "A Lonely Kind of War : Forward Air Controller, Vietnam"

1997  

Hass, Kristin Ann
    Carried to the Wall : American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

"A dissertation-like examination of why people leave many and varied objects at the Veterans Memorial in Washington." -Kirkus Reviews  1998   

Hass, Mary E.
    Women's Perspectives on the Vietnam War

Per the publisher: A broad and colorful overview of the diverse roles played by American and Vietnamese women during the war as combatants, nurses, social workers, politicians, journalists, entertainers, wives and mothers. Challenges the reader to appreciate the vital role of women in what typically is considered a young man's affair. Illustrated. Discussion questions included.  1991 

Hayes, Roger S.
    On Point : A Rifleman's Year in the Boonies : Vietnam 1967-1968

"Per the author:  On Point describes the world of an infantryman in Vietnam. The tale begins with the induction of a 20 year-old young man in 1967. After military training, I arrived in Vietnam like a wide-eyed tourist, taking in the sights, sounds, and smells of the country. As a replacement soldier, some time elapsed until I felt accepted by the combat-hardened soldiers of my platoon. I worked on developing the skills of a soldier such as walking point and exploring tunnels. I made a gradual transition from a "new guy" to a squad leader. Along the way I was wounded four times.

Through On Point, readers will share the experiences of listening posts, ambush patrols, search-and-destroy missions, firefights, and the terror of walking point alone in the dark. The book describes the close relationships formed by men at war, and friendships that I made with a Vietnamese boy and a girl. It also explores some of the processes that were involved in the war, such as the testing period of new arrivals, the quick rotation of officers in combat leadership positions, the disadvantages of the 365 day rotation, and the adjustment to the tropical climate. It contains a touch of humor and a bit of romance. Eric Bergerud, who wrote the foreword for my book, said it is "written with a hard edge, but with smiles on the corners."

If you're a veteran or someone who is casually interested in Vietnam, this book was written for you."

2000

Heineman, Kenneth J.
    Campus Wars : The Peace Movement at American State Universities in the Vietnam Era

Heinemann, Larry~online interview
    Paco's Story

ARMY 25th DIV (AUTHOR): A well known, quite slim, novel, slight only in size. Paco is sort of a living ghost returned to "the world" but not of it and the character remained with me, in that when I see the book or something reminds me of it, I stop to think about Paco and where he might be . . . 

    Close Quarters

This is inexplicably out of print, try a used book store or the library.

    Cooler by the Lake

If you read the excellent interview above, disregard the author's remarks about this book. It isn't about Vietnam. It is about a con man in Chicago and very funny reading. 

    Interview With Larry Heinemann 

See also The United States and Vietnam from War to Peace

Helms, Michael        The Proud Bastards

Respected author Keith William Nolan said of it: "The best grunt-level, tell-it-like-it-was work I've read. Captures the tedium the language, the the realities of Vietnam. The Proud Bastards is a classic."

Order from the Michael Helm's Karmicheal Press.

Hemphill, Robert   and Joseph L. Galloway, Pia S., Ph.d. Seagrave
    Platoon Bravo Company

The movie "Platoon" is about Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 25th Infantry Division.  One of the authors of this book was captain of that platoon.  1998   

Henderson, Charles W.
    Marshalling the Faithful : The Marines' First Year in Vietnam

1997. 

Hendrickson, Paul
    The Living and the Dead : Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War

The book is essays on McNamara, a helicopter crew member, a nurse and three other people. It contains a particularly detailed account of the Quaker who immolated himself outside the Pentagon in protest of the war. It is written in a mannered style, sort of a lineal colloquial descendant of Trollope. I enjoyed a book he wrote on a depression era photographer, "Looking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Walcott," which is now out of print.  Sept 1996  

Hendrix, John-Michael
    To Have and To Hold

This is an account by a 1st Cav scout pilot of his two tours, and of meeting and courting his wife, who was a nurse with the 85th Evac, Phu Bai.   They were married in Vietnam.  You may know of this as the book that inspired the children of Granite Falls to prod that town into holding the first Veterans' Day parade since 1918.  The book is quite good.  It was written for the author's children and embraced by a classroom, but I would not consider it a children's book.

Emerald City Publishing
30528 Mountain Loop Hwy.
Granite Falls, WA 98252

$15.90 per book (includes shipping)  Author will sign on request

Hennessy, Michael A.
    Strategy in Vietnam : Revolutionary Warfare in I Corps, 1965-1971 (Praeger Studies in Diplomacy and Strategic Thought)

1997. 

Herr, Michael
    Dispatches

This was one of the earlier books about Vietnam and like everything else about the war, it wasn't the usual history. Written in the style of Wolfe or Hunter, Herr is credited with making real the "rock n' roll" war.  You need to read it.  

Herring, George
    America's Longest War : The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975

Herring, George C. & Redford, Emmette S. -editors
    LBJ and Vietnam : A Different Kind of War

1996.

Herring, George and Kevin Simon
    The Vietnam War: Lessons from Yesterday for Today

1991 

Herrrington, Stuart A.
    Stalking the Vietcong; Inside Operation Phoenix, a Personal Account

1997. 

Herzog, Tobey
    Innocence Lost

Tobey Herzog is a Vietnam veteran and a scholar. He looks at the literature of the Vietnam war, placing it in a context with the literature from other wars. It is written in a very readable style and will be of interest to Vietnam veterans and scholars. 

    Tim O'Brien (Twayne's United States Authors Series, No 691)

This is the book that O'Brien scholars have been waiting for. Herzog knows O'Brien and his work and I learned quite a bit from his scholarship.  1997  

Hillstrom, Kevin and Laurie Collier Hillstrom
    "The Vietnam Experience : A Concise Encyclopedia of American Literature, Songs, and Films"

1998  

    Vietnam War Stories

1992  

Hodgins, Michael C.
    Reluctant Warrior : A Marine's True Story of Duty and Heroism in Vietnam

Commander of a Marine reconnaissance platoon in I Corps late in the war. Dec 1997 

Hofmann, Bettina
    Ahead of Survival : American Women Writers Narrate the Vietnam War (European University Studies. Series Xiv, Anlosaxon Language and Literature, Vol 30

Hovis, Bobbi
    Station Hospital Saigon : A Navy Nurse in Vietnam, 1963-1964 [excerpt]

A competently written, understated, detailed account by a nurse assigned to the first military hospital in Vietnam.  I recommend this book.   1992  

Hunt, Michael H. & Foner, Eric
    Lyndon Johnson's War : America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945- 1965 : A Critical Issue

1996  

Hunt, Richard A.
    "Pacification : The American Struggle for Vietnam's Hearts and Minds"

1998  

Huchthausen, Peter A. & Nguyen, Thi Lung
    Echoes of the Mekong

1996 

Hunt, Michael H.
    Lyndon Johnson's War : America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945- 1968

1997  

What does mean?  It is just my very subjective list of the top ten books to read about the Vietnam War.  I list them here.

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