Courageous Women of the Vietnam War
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“big attack”: Chong, Girl, 53.
“Everybody get out!” … “Run!”: Chong, Girl, 60.
“even more off target”: Chong, Girl, 61.
“as if a door had opened”: Chong, Girl, 63.
“People have been”: Chong, Girl, 64.
“Nong qua, nong qua!”: Chong, Girl, 68.
“Oh, she die”: Chong, Girl, 80.
“The entire world”: Chong, Girl, 80.
“the little girl in the picture”: Chong, Girl, 106.
“Kim Phuc is a good story”: Chong, Girl, 108–109.
“called for silence” … “We lost, we lost”: Chong, Girl, 137.
“But, you look very”: Chong, Girl, 190.
“boss” … “He met you”: Chong, Girl, 197.
“You are ‘hot’ news”: Chong, Girl, 203.
“You cannot go to Ho Chi Minh City”: Chong, Girl, 205.
“They have destroyed”: Chong, Girl, 212–213.
“We’ve run her picture”: Chong, Girl, 228.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Titles marked with an asterisk are particularly suited to young readers.
BOOKS
Appy, Christian G. Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides. New York: Penguin Books, 2004.
Baez, Joan. And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir. New York: Summit Books, 1987.
Baez, Joan. Daybreak. New York: Dial, 1966.
Bartimus, Tad, et al. War Torn: Stories from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam. New York: Random House, 2002.
Bauer, Kay M. “Catherine (Kay) M. Bauer.” In Vietnam War Nurses: Personal Accounts of 18 Americans, edited by Patricia Rushton, 11–21. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013.
Bissell, Tom. The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam. New York: Pantheon, 2007.
Bradley, Doug, and Craig Werner. We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015.
Caputo, Philip. A Rumor of War. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977.
*Caputo, Philip. 10,000 Days of Thunder: A History of the Vietnam War. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2005.
Chanoff, David, and Doan Van Toai. Portrait of the Enemy: The Other Side of Vietnam, Told Through Interviews with North Vietnamese, Former Vietcong and Southern Opposition Leaders. New York: Random House, 1986.
Chong, Denise. The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War. New York: Penguin Books, 2001.
Dang, Thuy Tram. Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram. Translated by Andrew X. Pham. New York: Harmony Books, 2007.
Elliott, Duong Van Mai. The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Fall, Bernard B. Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 1966.
FitzGerald, Frances. Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.
*Freedman, Russell. Vietnam: A History of the War. New York: Holiday House, 2016.
Galard, Geneviève de. The Angel of Dien Bien Phu: The Lone French Woman at the Decisive Battle for Vietnam. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2010.
Green, Bob. Homecoming: When the Soldiers Returned from Vietnam. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1989.
Hajdu, David. Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina, and Richard Farina. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2001.
Hall, Simon. Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements of the 1960s. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
Hayslip, Le Ly, with James Hayslip. Child of War, Woman of Peace. New York: Doubleday, 1993.
Hayslip, Le Ly, with Jay Wurts. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman’s Journey from War to Peace. New York: Doubleday, 1989.
Heikkila, Kim. Sisterhood of War: Minnesota Women in Vietnam. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2011.
Herring, George C. America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950–1975. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.
Hoffmann, Joyce. On Their Own: Women Journalists and the American Experience in Vietnam. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2008.
Hovis, Bobbi. Station Hospital Saigon: A Navy Nurse in Vietnam, 1963–1964. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1992.
Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History—the First Complete Account of Vietnam at War. New York: Viking, 1983.
Kazickas, Jurate. “These Hills Called Khe Sanh.” In War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam, Tad Bartimus et al., 121–153. New York: Random House, 2002.
Kusch, Frank. Battleground Chicago: The Police and the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004.
Neu, Charles E., ed. After Vietnam: Legacies of a Lost War. New York: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Roser, Iris Mary. Ba Rose: My Years in Vietnam, 1968–1971. Sydney: Pan Books, 1991.
Schmitz, David F. Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War: The End of the American Century. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
*Sheinkin, Steve. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War. New York: Roaring Brook, 2015.
Steinman, Ron. Women in Vietnam: The Oral History. New York: TV Books, 2000.
Taylor, Ethel Barol. We Made a Difference: My Personal Journey with Women Strike for Peace. Philadelphia: Camino Books, 1998.
Townley, Alvin. Defiant: The POWs Who Endured Vietnam’s Most Infamous Prison, the Women Who Fought for Them, and the One Who Never Returned. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2014.
Truong, Nhu Tang, with David Chanoff and Doan Van Toai. A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1985.
Turner, Karen Gottschang, with Phan Thanh Hao. Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998.
Xuan, Phuong, and Danièle Mazingarbe. Ao Dai: My War, My Country, My Vietnam. New York: EMQUAD International, 2004.
Van Devanter, Lynda, with Christopher Morgan. Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam. New York: Beaufort Books, 1983.
Verrone, Richard Burks, and Laura M. Calkins. Voices from Vietnam: Eye-Witness Accounts of the War, 1954–1975. Exeter, UK: David & Charles, 2005.
Walker, Keith. A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of Twenty-Six American Women Who Served in Vietnam. Novato, CA: Presidio, 1985.
Webb, Kate. “Highpockets.” In War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam, Tad Bartimus et al., 61–89. New York: Random House, 2002.
Webb, Kate. On the Other Side: 23 Days with the Viet Cong. New York: Quadrangle Books, 1972.
Wildwind, Sharon Grant. Dreams That Blister Sleep: A Nurse in Vietnam. Edmonton, AB: River Books, 1999.
Windrow, Martin. The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo, 2006.
Wood, Tracy. “Spies, Lovers, and Prisoners of War.” In War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam, Tad Bartimus et al., 223–249. New York: Random House, 2002.
Zaroulis, Nancy, and Gerald Sullivan. Who Spoke Up? American Protest Against the War in Vietnam 1963–1975. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1984.
ARTICLES AND WEBSITES
“Coup in Saigon: A Nurse Remembers.” Navy Medicine 88, no. 6 (November–December 1977): 16–21. https://archive.org/details/NaWMedicineVol.88No.6November-december1997.
Olson, Wyatt. “40 Years After Release, POWs at Hanoi Hilton Reflect on Experience.” Stars and Stripes, February 10, 2013. www.stripes.com/news/pacific/40-years-after-release-pows-at-hanoi-hilton-reflect-on-experience-1.207382.
“Richard Nixon: Address to the Nation About a New Initiative for Peace in Southeast Asia—October 7, 1970.” American Presidency Project. www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=2708.
Stewa
rd, Chad. “Former POW, Ambassador, Shares His Unique Perspective on Vietnam.” On Patrol, summer 2014. http://usoonpatrol.org/archives/2014/08/13/former-pow-ambassador-shares-h.
“Vietnam War Veterans.” The Vietnam War. http://thevietnamwar.info/vietnam-war-veterans/.
Wood, Tracy. “A War Correspondent Turned Lifelong Corruption Fighter,” Voice of Orange County, April 29, 2015. http://voiceofoc.org/2015/04/a-war-correspondent-turned-lifelong-corruption-fighter/.
RECORDINGS
Baez, Joan. Where Are You Now, My Son? Pickwick Records: 1973.
Kathryn J. Atwood is the author of Women Heroes of World War I, Women Heroes of World War II, and Women Heroes of World War II—the Pacific Theater as well as the editor of Code Name Pauline: Memoirs of a World War II Special Agent. She has contributed to The Historian; War, Literature, and the Arts; and the Des Plaines River Anthology. Visit her online at www.kathrynatwood.com.
Diane Carlson Evans was a captain in the US Army Nurse Corps from 1966 to 1972, serving in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969. She is the founder and president of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial Foundation and speaks nationally about the experience of women in wartime.
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Front cover photos: (top) Jurate Kazickas with soldiers, courtesy of Jurate Kazickas; (bottom, left to right) Dang Thuy Tram, courtesy of Vietnam Women’s Museum, Hanoi; Bobbi Hovis, courtesy of Bobbi Hovis collection; Lynda Van Devanter, courtesy of Buckley family and personal archives of Lynda Van Devanter; Kay Wilhelmy, courtesy of Kay Wilhelmy Bauer
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