The Vietnam War was a protracted military conflict between the Communist forces of North Vietnam supported by China and the former USSR and the non-Communist forces of South Vietnam supported by the United States. These stories cover different aspect of the war. The titles are located in Fiction at different branches of the City of Mesa Library.

Location Codes:
MN=Main Library
DR=Dobson Ranch
RM=Red Mountain (East Mesa)

YA=Young Adult
M=Mystery

Berent, Mark. Eagle Station. (RM)
In danger of being overrun, Eagle Station, a bastion of safety for the fighter pilots, tank drivers, and others fighting in northern Laos, receives help in the person of Special Forces Colonel Wolf Lochert.

Berent, Mark. Steel Tiger. (DR)
Major Court Bannister, Major "Flak" Apple, General "Whitey" Whisenand, Colonel Wolf Lochert, and Toby Parker live dangerously while spending their second tours of duty in Vietnam.

Berent, Mark. Storm Flight. (MN DR)
Special Forces Colonel Wolf Lochert exposes that American POWs with special skills or knowledge are held in a secret prison waiting transport to Russia and they can only be saved by a daring raid.

Butler, Robert Olen. The Deep Green Sea. (MN RM)
Traces the romance between a Vietnamese woman whose family is killed in the war and an American veteran returning to Vietnam to make peace with the past.

Coonts, Stephen Flight of the Intruder. (MN DR RM)
During the Vietnam War, attack pilot Jake Grafton, struggling with his conscience and trying to find meaning to all the senseless death and destruction, decides to plan an illegal bombing raid into the heart of Hanoi.

Campbell, Tom. The Old Man's Trail. (MN)
Tells the story of a North Vietnamese supply platoon laden with critical cargo, they must carry 650 miles. Along the way they encounter dangerous terrain, jungle predators, shortages of food and medicine and the hovering presence of the American enemy.

Clancy, Tom. Without Remorse. (MN RM DR)
In order to save himself and stop a sinister group of men, John Clark undertakes a terrifying mission into the netherworld of international conspiracy.

Eickhoff, Randy Lee. Return to Ithaca: A Confessional Novel. (MN)
Living in a monastery after turning his back on a world that has rejected him, Henry Morgan, one of three survivors of an elite team that fought behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War, finds himself once again in demand because of his special skills.

Gold, Jerome. Sergeant Dickinson: A Novel. (MN)
The survivors of the first Special Forces team in Vietnam to engage the North Vietnamese army are split up after the encounter, and one of the men, Sergeant Dickinson, tries to put himself back together again.

Hackworth, David H. The Price of Honor. (DR)
Captain Sandy Caine has always been haunted by the mystery of his father's cowardice in Vietnam, and together with reporter Abigail Mancini, he begins investigating circumstances that some people would like to be kept secret.

Heath, Layne. Blue Deep. (RM)
As the battle for Dien Bien Phu rages, a small-detached regiment of American soldiers assesses the black market in arms being sold to the Viet Minh to gauge the prospects for a U.S. engagement with the insurgents.

Just Ward. Dangerous Friend. (RM)
In 1965 Saigon, French planters, American "democratizers," and the Vietnamese become caught up in the growing unrest in Southeast Asia, in a novel that follows political scientist Sydney Parade as he begins to discover the roots of the conflict that is tearing the country apart.

O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. (MN DR RM)
Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness.

O'Neill, Susan. Don't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Vietnam. (MN RM)
A collection of short fiction offers a glimpse inside the Vietnam War and how it changed so many lives from a female perspective, in such works as "One Positive Thing," "Broken Stone," and "Butch."

Ritter John H. Over the Wall. YA (DR)
Thirteen-year-old Tyler, who has trouble controlling his anger, spends an important summer with his cousins in New York City, playing baseball and sorting out how he feels about violence, war, and in particular the Vietnamese conflict that took his grandfather's life. Thirteen-year-old Tyler, who has a problem with anger, spends a summer with his cousins in New York City, playing baseball and sorting out his feelings about the Vietnam war that took his grandfather's life.

Silver, Jim. Kill Zone. M (MN RM))
After learning that his own men murdered his father, an Army major in Vietnam. Aaron Longbaugh vows to use his own training as an Army sniper to exact revenge.

Webb, James. Lost Soldiers. (MN DR RM)
Sent to Vietnam to recover the skeleton of an American MIA, former combat Marine Brandon Condley investigates the case of Army Specialist Theodore Deville, a deserter and traitor who had led a Viet Cong ambush against Condley's own men, and embarks on a fierce quest for vengeance, justice, and redemption after he discovers that Deville is still alive.

Wentz, Gene. Men in Green Faces. (DR)
A Seal team hunts for a notorious NVA general deep within enemy territory.

White, Ellen Emerson. Where Have All the Flowers Gone? The Diary of Molly Mckenzie Flahery. YA (DR RM)
In 1968 Massachusetts, after her brother Patrick goes to fight in Vietnam, fifteen-year-old Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother, volunteers at a Veterans' Administration Hospital, and tries to make sense of the war in Vietnam and the tumultuous events in the United States.

Wetterhahn, Ralph, Shadowmakers. (MN DR RM)
Receiving recent photographs of his believed-dead Vietnam POW father, Air Force fighter pilot Will Cadence investigates with the help of forensic anthropologist Gabrielle DeJean and discovers a massive cover-up.

SL, 5/03; Holdings checked 7/06 KRL