Table of Contents
TIME
Death at Intermission Time First U.S. 1 (2)
Advisers Killed in South Vietnam: July 1959
STANLEY KARNOW
Diem Defeats His Own Best Troops Challenges 3 (15)
to Diem: January 1961
MALCOLM W. BROWNE
Paddy War Guerrilla War in the Mekong 18 (8)
Delta: December 1961
HOMER BIGART
A "Very Real War" in Vietnam--and the Deep 26 (7)
U.S. Commitment Increasing American
Involvement: February 1962
MALCOLM W. BROWNE
"The Enemy Had Left a Display for Us" 33 (14)
Massacre in the Ca Mau Peninsula: February
1962
BERNARD B. FALL
Master of the Red Jab Interview with Ho Chi 47 (11)
Minh: July 1962
HOMER BIGART
Vietnam Victory Remote Despite U.S. Aid to 58 (10)
Diem A Skeptical Assessment: July 1962
NEIL SHEEHAN
Vietnamese Ignored U.S. Battle Order Battle 68 (3)
of Ap Bac: January 1963
DAVID HALBERSTAM
"An Endless, Relentless War" Helicopter 71 (8)
Assault in the Ca Mau Peninsula: April 1963
MALCOLM W. BROWNE
"He Was Sitting in the Center of a Column of 79 (7)
Flame" Suicide in Saigon: June 1963
MARGUERITE HIGGINS
The Diem Government, Pro and Con Politics 86 (5)
in Saigon: August 1963
JOSEPH ALSOP
In the Gia Long Palace Nhu and Diem: 91 (3)
September 1963
STANLEY KARNOW
The Fall of the House of Ngo Dinh Overthrow 94 (14)
of Diem: November 1963
DAVID HALBERSTAM
"They Can Win a War If Someone Shows Them 108(16)
How" Profile of John Paul Vann: 1962-1964
U.S. NEWS
WORLD REPORT
"We Are Losing, Morale Is Bad...If They'd 124(10)
Give Us Good Planes..." A Pilot's Letters
Home: November 1963-March 1964
BEVERLY DEEPE
Christmas Eve Bomb in Saigon "The pink 134(4)
cloud became black": December 1963
RUSSELL BAKER
Befuddled in Asia Confusion Over Policy: 138(2)
March 1965
JOHN FLYNN
Marines Get Flowers for a Tough Mission 140(2)
First Combat Troops Land: March 1965
ROGER RAPOPORT
Protest, Learning, Heckling Spark Viet 142(3)
Rally First Campus "Teach-In": March 1965
MEG GREENFIELD
After the Washington Teach-in Controversy 145(8)
Over the War Intensifies: May 1965
DON MOSER
Eight Dedicated Men Marked for Death 153(22)
Struggle for Loc Dien: Summer 1965
BERNARD B. FALL
Vietnam Blitz: A Report on the Impersonal 175(12)
War American Buildup: September 1965
WILLIAM TUOHY
A Big "Dirty Little War" Terror and 187(11)
Counter-terror: Autumn 1965
TOM WOLFE
from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Ken 198(10)
Kesey Addresses an Anti-War Rally: October
1965
SPECIALIST 4/C JACK P. SMITH
Death in the Ia Drang Valley "Men All 208(15)
Around Me Were Screaming": November 1965
SUSAN SHEEHAN
A Viet Cong A Defector Tells His Story: 223(13)
1965
McCANDLISH PHILLIPS
Two Hilltops in a Marine's Life Letters 236(6)
Home: April 1965-February 1966
HENRY F. GRAFF
Teach-In on Vietnam By... The President, the 242(17)
Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense
and the Under Secretary of State The
Administration Defends Its Policies:
February 1966
AFRO-AMERICAN
No Room in the Cemetery A Soldier's Burial: 259(3)
May 1966
WARD S. JUST
Reconnaissance Combat in the Central 262(19)
Highlands: June 1966
FRANK HARVEY
"Only You Can Prevent Forests" Spraying 281(6)
Defoliants: July 1966
MARTHA GELLHORN
"Suffer the Little Children" Civilian 287(11)
Casualties in South Vietnam:
August-September 1966
NEIL SHEEHAN
Not a Dove, But No Longer a Hawk Veteran 298(18)
Reporter Reassesses the War: October 1966
FRANCES FITZGERALD
"The Long Fear" Politics in the Mekong 316(9)
Delta: 1966
HARRISON E. SALISBURY
U.S. Raids Better 2 Towns; Supply Route Is 325(6)
Little Hurt The Bombing of North Vietnam:
December 1966
BERNARD B. FALL
"Unrepentant, Unyielding": An Interview with 331(13)
Viet Cong Prisoners U.S. Offensive in the
Iron Triangle: January 1967
JONATHAN RANDAL
U.S. Marines Seize 3d Hill in Vietnam After 344(4)
12-Day Push Khe Sanh Hill Fights: May 1967
WARD S. JUST
Saigon and Other Syndromes A Reporter Looks 348(23)
Back: December 1965-May 1967
DON MOSER
The Vietcong Cadre of Terror War in Saigon: 371(15)
June 1965-July 1967
JONATHAN SCHELL
from The Military Half: An Account of the 386(98)
Destruction in Quang Ngai and Quang Tin
Southern I Corps: August 1967
RICHARD HARWOOD
The War Just Doesn't Add Up Conflicting 484(6)
Views: September 1967
MICHAEL J. ARLEN
A Day in the Life A TV Crew at Con Thien: 490(16)
September 1967
NORMAN MAILER
from The Armies of the Night The March on 506(16)
the Pentagon: October 1967
PETER ARNETT
Hill 875 Battle of Dak To: November 1967 522(3)
TOM WOLFE
The Truest Sport: Jousting with Sam and 525(32)
Charlie Air War Over North Vietnam:
December 1967
CHARLES MOHR
U.S. Aide in Embassy Villa Kills Guerrilla 557(3)
with Pistol The Tet Offensive: January 1968
DON OBERDORFER
from Tet! The Viet Cong in Hue: 560(12)
January-February 1968
LEE LESCAZE
A Third of Mytho Destroyed in Delta Fighting 572(4)
The Tet Offensive: February 1968
JOHN T. WHEELER
Life in the V Ring Khe Sanh Under Siege: 576(5)
February 1968
WALTER CRONKITE
"We Are Mired in Stalemate..." Aftermath of 581(2)
Tet: February 1968
DON OBERDORFER
"An Ending of His Own" Lyndon Johnson 583(15)
Changes Course: March 1968
MARY McCARTHY
Hanoi--March 1968 An American in North 598(17)
Vietnam: March-April 1968
THOMAS A. JOHNSON
The U.S. Negro in Vietnam Black Servicemen 615(13)
and the War: 1968
NORMAN MAILER
from The Siege of Chicago The Democratic 628(15)
Convention: August 1968
STEVE LERNER
A Visit to Chicago: Blood, Sweat, & Tears 643(10)
The Democratic Convention: August 1968
JOE McGINNISS
from The Selling of the President 1968 The 653(11)
Nixon Campaign and Vietnam: September 1968
KEVIN BUCKLEY
A Small Contribution Firefight Near Loc Ninh: 664(3)
October 1968
ZALIN GRANT
"We Lived for a Time Like Dogs" American 667(21)
POWs in a Jungle Camp: July 1968-January 1969
JEFFREY BLANKFORT
Our Town: The War Comes Home to Beallsville, 688(10)
Ohio A Small Town Mourns Its Dead: Spring
1969
DAVID HOFFMAN
Hamburger Hill: The Army's Rationale 698(6)
Battle in the A Shau Valley: May 1969
WALLACE TERRY
Black Power in Viet Nam Racial Tensions in 704(5)
the Military: September 1969
DANIEL LANG
Casualties of War An Atrocity and Its 709(62)
Aftermath: November 1966-October 1969
Maps 771(4)
Chronology, 1940-1995 775(29)
Biographical Notes 804(13)
Note on the Texts 817(5)
Notes 822(14)
Glossary 836(5)
Index 841
