INDOCHINA: A SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY

                                                Compiled by Amy and Paul Piersma for NCSEC

May 12, 2005

 

 

VIETNAM:

 

Claude Anshin Thomas, At Hellís Gate:  A Soldierís Journey from War to Peace (2004)

 

W.D. Ehrhart,  Passing Time:  Memoir of a Vietnam Veteran Against the War  (1986)

 

Robert Shaplen, Bitter Victory (1986)

 

Arnold R. Isaacs, Vietnam Shadows:  The War, Its Ghosts and Its Legacy (1987)

 

Susan Kalz Keating, Prisoners of Hope:  Exploiting the POW/MIA Myth in America

 

Myra MacPherson, Long Time Passing:  Vietnam and the Haunted Generation (1986)

 

Bao Ninh, The Sorrow of War:  A novel of North Vietnam  (1991)

 

Tom Mangold and John Penycate,  The Tunnels  of Cu Chi:  The Untold Story of Vietnam ( 1985)

 

Caroline Alexander,  ìLetter from Vietnam: Across the River Styx: the Mission to retrieve the deadî,  The New Yorker, October 25, 2004.

 

 

 

 

CAMBODIA:

 

Laurence Picq, Beyond the Horizon:  Five years with the Khmer Rouge (1986)

 

Eleanor Mannikka, Angkor Wat:  Time, Space and Kingship

 

Phillip Short,  Pol Pot:  Anatomy of a Nightmare  (2004)

 

 

 

 

Websites:

 

www.eastmeetswest.org  East Meets West Foundation provides medical, dental, and social services to poor children and to ethnic minorities.  It is a 501-c3 non-profit, accepts donations and has opportunities for volunteer professionals.

http://www.collegenews.org   articles by scholars of several universities

www.wikipedia.com  source for demographic information and links to practically everything

www.vietgate.net   list of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in Vietnam

www.saigon.com   links to travel, tourism, business, relating to Saigon—Its main audience seems to be the Vietnamese diaspora.