"There It Is": Narratives of the Vietnam War. Tom Burns
ibidem-Press, Stuttgart
Table of Contents
Introduction
iii. The Narrative Literature of the War
Part I Partisans
i. Lieutenant-Colonel Landsdale
ii. Graham Greene, The Quiet American (1955)
iii. William J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick, The Ugly American (1958)
iv. M. J. Bosse, The Journey of Tao Kim Nam (1959)
v. Jean Lartéguy, Yellow Fever (1962; English Translation, 1965)
vi. Epilogue: Ward Just, A Dangerous Friend (1999)
Chapter Two Fictional History & Historical Fiction: The Fall of Diem
ii. Stuart Hempstone, A Tract of Time (1966)
iii. Robert Vaughn, The Valkyrie Mandate (1974)
iv. Morris West, The Ambassador (1965)
Chapter Three Advisors & Friendlies: Pro-War Novels
i. Optimism in the early phases
ii. Robin Moore, The Green Berets (1965)
iii. Scott C. S. Stone, The Coasts of War (1966)
iv. Richard Newhafer, No More Bugles in the Sky (1966)
v. Gene D. Moore’s The Killing at Ngo Tho (1967)
vi. James Crumley, One to Count Cadence (1969)
vii. Charles Larson, The Chinese Game (1969)
Chapter Four Advisors & Friendlies II: Ambivalent Warriors
i. Doubt sets in
ii. David Halberstam, One Very Hot Day (1967)
iii. Daniel Ford, Incident at Muc Wa (1968)
iv. John Rowe, Count Your Dead (1968),
v. Alan Clark, The Lion Heart: a Tale of the War in Vietnam (1969)
vi. Josiah Bunting, The Lionheads (1972)
vii. Bo Hathaway’s A World of Hurt (1981),
viii. Donald McQuinn, Targets (1980)
Chapter Five Soldiers & Civilians
i. Protestors & Reporters
ii. Norman Mailer, Armies of the Night (1968)
iii. Pamela Sanders, Miranda (1978)
iv. Thomas Fleming’s The Officers’ Wives (1981)
v. Joan Didion, Democracy (1984)
vi. Takeshi Kaiko’s Into a Black Sun: Vietnam 1964–65 (1968, English trans. 1983)
vii. Bernard Kalb and Martin Kalb, The Last Ambassador (1981)
Part II Modes and Genres
i. Autobiographical War Writings
ii. Ron Kovic, Born on the Fourth of July (1976)
iii. Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War (1977)
iv. Tim O’Brien, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home (1975)