My Lai, a TV documentary on the Vietnam War that premiered on The American Experience PBS, contains new interviews with C Company soldiers, door gunner Lawrence Colburn, and Aubrey Daniel, chief Army prosecutor in the trial of 2nd Lt. William Calley

Vietnam War Reader: A Documentary History from American and Vietnamese Perspectives edited by Michael H. Hunt is a collection of 102 documents aimed to help students and teachers gain an understanding of the war, its impact and longterm consequences

A Hundred Feet Over Hell, by Jim Hooper, presents firsthand accounts of men of 220th Recon Airplane Company who flew close tactical reconnaissance in Cessna O-1 Bird Dogs over I Corps at the DMZ, calling in artillery and airstrikes, 1968-69

Vietnam Declassified: The CIA and Counterinsurgency, by Thomas L. Ahern Jr., is about the CIA's role in rural pacification operations in Vietnam, 1954-75. Ahern focuses on the struggle to suppress the Viet Cong and win the loyalty of the peasantry

With the Ho Chi Minh Trail as his stage, historianJohn Prados plays out the tragedy that was Vietnam.

By John I. Witmer

Millions of words have been written about the Vietnam War, and still, nearly 25 years after the fall …

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The thousands of Canadians who fought alongside U.S. soldiers in Vietnam were following a tradition dating back to theAmerican Civil War, when Canadians fought on both sides of that struggle. "The British North Americans who fought…in theCivil …

The 9th Engineer Battalion, First Marine Division, in Vietnam: 35 Personal Accounts, by Jean Shellenbarger, McFarland, Jefferson, N.C., 2000, $35.

Unlike most units that served in Vietnam, the U.S. Marines' 9th Engineer Battalion was created in November 1965 specifically for …

Escape With Honor: My Last Hours in Vietnam, by Francis Terry McNamara with Adrian Hill, Brassey's, Inc., Washington, D.C., 1997, $21.95.

The last days of the Vietnam War are vividly portrayed by former Consul General Terry McNamara of the U.S. …

MACV's Studies and Observations Group was once so secret that the U.S. government denied its existence.

A provocative new study of the Vietnam War places it in the larger context of a global conflict.

By Michael D. Hull

America fought the war in Vietnam because of geopolitics, and forfeited the war because of domestic politics. The …

Blue Spaders: The 26th Infantry Regiment 1917-1967, edited by Steven Weingartner, First Division Museum at Cantigny, 1 South 151 Winfield Road, Wheaton, Ill., 1996, $20.

In his interview in this issue, "Operation Attleboro: The Wolfhounds' Brave Stand," Maj. Gen. (then …

Vietnam Wives, by Aphrodite Matsakis, The Sidran Press, Lutherville, Md., $19.95.

We have heard the cries and shouts of Vietnam veterans suffering from the past and present horrors of war. Now we also hear the women who love them whisper …

A Hundred Miles of Bad Road: An Armored Cavalryman in Vietnam, 1967-68, by Dwight Birdwell and Keith William Nolan, Presidio Press, Novato, Calif., 1997, $24.95.

Keith Nolan is well-known for his gripping Vietnam battle narratives. During research for his recent …

Air War Over North Viet Nam: The Vietnamese People's Air Force 1949-1977, by István Toperczer, Squadron/Signal Publications, Carrollton, Texas, 1998, paperback, $9.99.

For decades, accounts of the American bombing effort over North Vietnam have amounted to detailed studies of U.S. …

Victory at Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam's General Giap, by CecilB. Currey, Brassey's, New York, 1996, $25.95.

In Victory at Any Cost, Cecil B. Currey presents the Vietnamese perspective of the Viet Minh's struggle for power. There is …

Clashes: Air Combat Over North Vietnam 1965­1972, by Marshall L. Michel III, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Md., 1997, $32.95.

Marshall L. Michel III has written a fine book to fill a very real void in the libraries of all those …