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| Map of Vietnam | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Chronology of the War | 7 | |
| 1 | Green | 11 |
| The Green Berets (1965) | 17 | |
| If I Die in a Combat Zone (1973) | 41 | |
| Going After Cacciato (1978) | 47 | |
| 2 | Early Work | 51 |
| one very hot day (1967) | 57 | |
| If I Die in a Combat Zone (1973) | 73 | |
| Obscenities (1972) | 81 | |
| Sticks and Bones (1969) | 89 | |
| From Demilitarized Zones (1976) | 107 | |
| 3 | First Wave of Major Work | 113 |
| Born on the Fourth of July (1976) | 119 | |
| Fields of Fire (1978) | 130 | |
| A Rumor of War (1977) | 150 | |
| Dispatches (1977) | 200 | |
| Going After Cacciato (1978) | 234 | |
| 4 | First Wave of Major Films | 257 |
| The Deer Hunter, Coming Home, Apocalypse Now | 259 | |
| 5 | Songs | 279 |
| "The Ballad of the Green Berets" (1966) | 285 | |
| "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" (1965) | 286 | |
| "Fortunate Son" (1969) | 288 | |
| "The Unknown Soldier" (1968) | 289 | |
| "What's Going On" (1971) | 290 | |
| "War" (1970) | 292 | |
| "Born in the U.S.A." (1984) | 294 | |
| "The Big Parade" (1989) | 296 | |
| 6 | The Oral History Boom | 297 |
| Nam (1981) | 303 | |
| Bloods (1984) | 324 | |
| A Piece of My Heart (1985) | 338 | |
| From Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam, (1985) | 351 | |
| Everything We Had (1981) | 365 | |
| 7 | Second Wave of Major Work | 389 |
| The 13th Valley (1982) | 395 | |
| Meditations in Green (1983) | 414 | |
| Paco's Story (1986) | 427 | |
| 8 | Second Wave of Major Films | 439 |
| Platoon, Full Metal Jacket | 441 | |
| 9 | Memoirs | 457 |
| 365 Days (1971) | 461 | |
| The Killing Zone (1978) | 470 | |
| Chickenhawk (1983) | 483 | |
| The Only War We Had (1987) | 495 | |
| 10 | Masterwork | 503 |
| The Things They Carried (1990) | 507 | |
| 11 | Homecoming | 539 |
| Paco's Story (1986) | 545 | |
| Love Medicine (1984) | 561 | |
| From Carrying the Darkness (1985) | 573 | |
| A Romance (1979), The Monkey Wars (1985), What Saves Us (1992) | 579 | |
| The Things They Carried (1990) | 593 | |
| 12 | Memory | 613 |
| Dien Cai Dau (1988) | 619 | |
| In Country (1985) | 632 | |
| "Incoming" (1994) | 653 | |
| In the Lake of the Woods (1994) | 655 | |
| "Mr. Giai's Poem" (1991) | 672 | |
| 13 | The Wall | 675 |
| "The Invasion of Grenada" (1984) | 679 | |
| The Names of the Dead (1996) | 680 | |
| Dien Cai Dau (1988) | 687 | |
| Glossary | 693 | |
| Selected Additional Bibliography | 697 | |
| Selected Additional Filmography | 699 | |
| Reading Questions | 701 | |
| Acknowledgments | 715 | |
| Index | 719 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Pedro Reboredo Reboredo
reviewed The Vietnam Reader: The Definitive Collection of American Fiction and Nonfiction on the War on June 11, 2014
The Vietnam Reader
Though these stories span generations and viewpoints, I was struck by how similar their themes were. These selections are dominated by coming-of-age stories -- what editor Stewart O'Nan described using the fancier term of bildungsroman, or German learning-novel.
I found these selections to be powerful and overwhelming dark, which isn't surprising considering the heartbreak and savagery of the Vietnam War. It also jumped out to me how little the Vietnamese play a role in American accounts of the war.
One criticism I have: While the book proclaims itself "the definitive collection of American fiction and nonfiction" about Vietnam, there really isn't a whole lot of nonfiction included. Largely, the oeuvre is made up of literary accounts of the war, which is a little less than promised.
For comedy, there was Robin Moore's The Green Berets, which was made into a much panned 1968 John Wayne movie. It's no surprise it didn't play well, considering cliched I-don't-play-by-the-rules dialogue like this:
"'Kornie has killed more VC than any other A team in the three weeks since we've taken over here,' Fenz pointed out.
"'Kornie is too damned independent and unorthodox,' Train said.
"'That's what they taught us at Bragg, Colonel,' I put in. 'Or did I spend three months misunderstanding the message?'
"'There are limits. I don't agree with all the School teaches.'"
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