Books (available in library)
Title Call Number
Fire in the lake: the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam DS 557 A6 F53
Vietnam, the history and the tactics DS 557.1 V563
10,000 days of thunder: a history of the Vietnam War DS 557.7
The Vietnam War DS 557.7 D75
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: a political, social, and military history (3vol) DS 557.7 E53
Images of war DS 557.7 I48
The Vietnam War: an almanac DS 557.7 V5663
The Vietnam War: opposing viewpoints DS 558.2 V54
Thunder from above: air war, 1941-1968 DS 558.8 M67
Rain of fire: air war, 1969-1973 DS 558.8 M67
Chickenhawk DS 559.5 M37
A war remembered DS 559.5 W367
Hell no, we won’t go!: resisting the draft during the Vietnam War DS 559.8 D7 G68
Tools of war DS 559.8 S3 D64
The valiant women of the Vietnam War DS 559.8 W6 Z45
After the war was over: Hanoi and Saigon DS 559.93 H36 S5
A time for war: the United States and Vietnam, 1941-1975 E 183.8 V5 S37
War in a time of peace: Bush, Clinton, and the generals E 881 H34 2001
The war and the wall: service, sacrifice and honor F 203.4 V55 S37
Kent State; what happened and why LD 4191 O72 M48
Journalists at risk: reporting America’s wars PN 4784 W37 S85
An American requiem: God, my father, and the war that came between us PS 3553 A764 Z464
Tinker v. Des Moines: student protest YA KF 228 T56 F3
Journal Articles (available through the Literature Resource Center Database)
Record 1
Title: Truth and fiction in Tim O'Brien's If I Die in a Combat Zone and The Things They Carried.
Source: College Literature, Spring 2002 v29 i2 p1(18)
Author: Wesley, Marilyn.
Record 2
Title: Tim O'Brien; inventing a new form helps the author talk about war, memory and storytelling.
Source: Publishers Weekly, Feb 16, 1990 v237 n7 p60(2)
(PW Interviews): Coffey, Michael.
Record 3
Title: Talking dirty: Memories of war and the Vietnam war novel.
Source:Massachusetts Review; Autumn93, Vol. 34 Issue 3, p457, 24p
Authors:Epstein, Renee
Record 4
Title: "Truth and Fiction in Tim O'Brien's If I Die in a Combat Zone and The Things They Carried"
Source: College Literature 29, no. 2 (spring 2002): 1-18.
Critic: Wesley, Marilyn
Record 5
Title: "'The Things Men Do': The Gendered Subtext in Tim O'Brien's Esquire Stories"
Source: Critique 36, no. 1 (fall 1994): 16-40.
Critic: Smith, Lorrie N.
Record 6
Title: "Vietnam, Carried On"
Source: Book World--Washington Post (23 April 1990): B13.
Critic: Bunting, Josiah
Record 7
Title: "Conversation across a Century: The War Stories of Ambrose Bierce and Tim O'Brien"
Source: WLA: War, Literature & the Arts 10, no. 2 (fall-winter 1998): 267-88.
Critic: Campbell, Christopher D.
Record 8
Title: "Tim O'Brien and the Art of the True War Story: 'Night March' and 'Speaking of Courage'"
Source: Twentieth Century Literature 46, no. 1 (spring 2000): 100-14.
Critic: Timmerman, John H.
Record 9
Title: "'Afraid to Admit We Are Not Achilles': Facing Hector's Dilemma in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried"
Critic: McDonough, Christopher Michael
Record 10
Title: "O'Brien's The Things They Carried"
Source: Explicator 61, no. 3 (spring 2003): 189.
Critic: Blyn, Robin
Record 11
Title: "'How to Tell a True War Story': Metafiction in The Things They Carried"
Source: Critique 36, no. 4 (summer 1995): 249-57.
Critic: Calloway, Catherine
Record 12
Title: Tim O'Brien: Overview
Source: Contemporary Popular Writers, edited by Dave Mote, St. James Press, 1997
Critic: Miller, D. Quentin
Record 13
Title: Critical Essay on "How to Tell a True War Story"
Source: Short Stories for Students, Vol. 15, Gale, 2002.
Critic: Holm, Catherine Dybiec
Record 14
Title: Critical Essay on "How to Tell a True War Story"
Source: Short Stories for Students, Vol. 15, Gale , 2002.
Critic: Henningfeld, Diane Andrews
Record 15
Title: "Salvation, Storytelling, and Pilgrimage in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried"
Source: Mosaic 36, no. 4 (December 2003): 171.
Critic: Vernon, Alex
Record 16
Title: The Things They Carried
Source: Short Stories for Students, The Gale Group, 1999
Critic: Piedmont-Marton, Elisabeth
Record 17
Title: Tim O'Brien: Overview
Source: Contemporary Novelists, 6th ed., edited by Susan Windisch Brown, St. James Press, 1996
Critic: McMechan, Ian (updated by D. Quentin Miller)
Record 18
Title: "The Undying Certainty of the Narrator in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried"
Source: Critique 35, no. 1 (fall 1993): 43-52.
Critic: Kaplan, Steven
Record 19
Title: “O’Brien’s ‘How to Tell a True War Story’”
Source: Explicator 57, no. 3 (Spring 1999): 182.
Critic: King, Rosemary
Record 20
Title: Storyteller for a war that won’t end
Source: The New York Times, Apr 3rd, 1990, pp. C15, C17
Critic: Bruckner, D.J.R.
Record 21
Title: Too embarrassed not to kill
Source: The New York Times Book Review, March 11, 1990, p.8
Critic: Harris, Robert R.
Record 22
Title: “The Things They Carried as a composite novel”
Source: WLA: War, Literature, & the Arts 10, no.2 (fall-winter 1998): 289-309.
Critic: O’Gorman, Farrell
Record 23
Title: “Telling the ‘Truth’ about Vietnam: episteme and narrative structure in The Green Berets and The Things They Carried”
Source: WLA: War, Literature, & the Arts 11, no. 1 (spring-summer 1999):240-55.
Critic: Volkmer, Jon
Record 24
Title: “Getting it right: the short fiction of Tim O’Brien”
Source: Critique 40, no. 3 (spring 1999): 257-64.
Critic: Robinson, Daniel
Title: “Conversation across a century: the war stories of Ambrose Bierce anf Tim O’Brien”
Source: WLA: War, Literature, & the Arts 10, no. 2 (fall-winter 1998): 267-88.
Critic:Campbell, Christopher D.
Record 25
Title: “’Unraveling the deeper meaning’: exile and the embodied poetics of displacement in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried”
Source: Contemporary Literature 39, no. 1 (spring 1998):77-97.
Critic: Chen, Tina
Record 26
Title: “Excremental assault” in Tim O’Brien: trauma and recovery in Vietnam War literature
Critic: Jarraway, David R.