| Advisory Board | |
| Preface | |
| After Our War: Conscientious Objectors and Other Draft Resisters | 1 |
| Apocalypse Now: The Vietnam War as Hallucinatory Experience | 6 |
| The Armies of the Night: The March on the Pentagon | 16 |
| "The Ballad of the Green Berets": U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam | 25 |
| The Best and the Brightest: Policymakers of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations | 29 |
| Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans: African Americans and Vietnam | 38 |
| "Born in the U.S.A.": Returning Home from the War | 43 |
| Born on the Fourth of July: Disabled Veterans in America | 50 |
| A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam: Military Advisor John Paul Vann and His Experiences in Vietnam | 57 |
| Casualties of War: Atrocities in Vietnam | 65 |
| Coming Home: Antiwar Vietnam Veterans | 72 |
| The Deer Hunter: The Fall of Saigon | 79 |
| Dispatches: Khe Sanh and the Tet Offensive | 89 |
| Fields of Fire: GI View of the Antiwar Movement | 96 |
| Fire in the Lake: Impact of the War on Vietnamese Society | 102 |
| "Fortunate Son": Vietnam as a Working-Class War | 111 |
| Friendly Fire: "Friendly Fire" Casualties and Stateside Grief | 117 |
| Full Metal Jacket: Lessons of Basic Training | 123 |
| Go Tell the Spartans: U.S. Advisory Effort in Vietnam | 128 |
| Going After Cacciato: Desertion during the Vietnam War | 133 |
| The Green Berets: U.S. Media Coverage of the War | 138 |
| The Hanoi Hilton: American POWs | 146 |
| Hearts and Minds: American Apathy after the U.S. Withdrawal | 152 |
| Home before Morning: American Nurses in Vietnam | 160 |
| In Country: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial | 166 |
| In Pharaoh's Army: "Survivor's Guilt" | 172 |
| In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam: Robert McNamara and the War | 177 |
| The Killing Fields: The Khmer Rouge Takeover of Cambodia | 185 |
| "Masters of War": The Military-Industrial Complex | 194 |
| Meditations in Green: Drug Abuse in Vietnam | 202 |
| "Ohio": The Kent State Shootings | 208 |
| "Okie from Muskogee": Anthems of the "Silent Majority" | 217 |
| Paco's Story: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among Vietnam Veterans | 221 |
| Platoon: Decline in U.S. Military Performance in Vietnam: Causes and Consequences | 227 |
| The Quiet American: American Intervention in the French-Vietminh War | 237 |
| Rambo: First Blood, Part II: The Vietnam War and American Self-Image in the 1980s | 247 |
| The Real War: American Military Strategy and Its Toll on Vietnam's Land and People | 254 |
| A Rumor of War: "Americanization" of the War | 262 |
| Song of Napalm: Vietnam Veteran Poetry | 268 |
| Sticks and Bones: Postwar Reintegration into Family Networks | 273 |
| The Things They Carried: The War in Quang Ngai Province | 279 |
| The 13th Valley: "Humping the Boonies": Vietnam's Terrain and Climate | 285 |
| "We Gotts Get Out of This Place": Rock and Roll Sound Track to the War | 291 |
| Winners and Losers: Women Correspondents in Vietnam | 296 |
| Other Notable Works Concerning the Vietnam War | |
| Films | 303 |
| Songs | 306 |
| Literature | 308 |
| Index | 313 |
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
