This is a bibliography of works on the Vietnam War.

The bibliography aims to include primary, secondary and tertiary sources. Additionally, the scope of the bibliography expands to the causes of the Vietnam War and the immediate aftermath, such as evacuation and expulsion and war crimes trials. Works on the causes or the aftermath of the Vietnam War should only be included if they describe the respective events in the specific context of and relation to the conflict itself.

There are thousands of books written about the Vietnam War; therefore, this is not an all-inclusive list. This bibliography also does not aim to include fictional works (see List of Vietnam War films). It does not aim to include self-published works, unless there is a very good reason to do so.

Bibliography

Baker, Kevin. "Stabbed in the Back! The past and future of a right-wing myth", Harper's Magazine (June 2006)

Blaufarb Douglas S. The Counterinsurgency Era (1977). A history of the Kennedy Administration's involvement in South Vietnam. Brigham, Robert K. Battlefield Vietnam: A Brief History. A PBS interactive website.

a Washington insider's memoir of events.

Menand, Louis, "How to Lose a War: Getting out of Vietnam was harder than getting in. Is there a lesson here?" (review of Elisa Tamarkin, Done in a Day: Telex from the Fall of Saigon, Chicago), The New Yorker, 20 April 2026, pp. 56–61.

textbook.

official medical history

Narrative military history by a senior U.S. general.

Schell, Jonathan. The Time of Illusion (1976). Schulzinger, Robert D. A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941–1975 (1997).

Sorley, Lewis, A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam (1999), based upon still classified tape-recorded meetings of top level US commanders in Vietnam, Spector, Ronald. After Tet: The Bloodiest Year in Vietnam (1992), very broad coverage of 1968.

Summers, Harry G. [ On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War], Presidio press (1982), (225 pages)

Tucker, Spencer. ed. Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War (1998) 3 vol. reference set; also one-volume abridgement (2001).