Representative Works Discussed Below
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Balk, H. Wesley and Ronald J. Glasser
The Dramatization of 365 Days (drama) 1972
Barry, Jan and W. D. Ehrhart
Demilitarized Zones: Veterans After Vietnam [editors] (poetry) 1976
Berry, David
G. R. Point (drama) 1975
Bunting, Josiah
The Lionheads (novel) 1972
Caputo, Philip
Indian Country (novel) 1987
Cimino, Michael
The Deer Hunter (film) 1978
Cole, Tom
Medal of Honor Rag (drama) 1975
Coppola, Francis
Apocalypse Now (film) 1979
Del Vecchio, John
The 13th Valley (novel) 1982
DiFusco, John
Tracers (drama) 1980
Ehrhart, W. D.
To Those Who Have Gone Home Tired (poetry) 1984
Carrying the Darkness [editor] (poetry) 1985
Unaccustomed Mercy: Soldier Poets of the Vietnam War [editor] (poetry) 1989
Just For Laughs (poetry) 1990
Greene, Graham
The Quiet American (novel) 1955
Halberstam, David
One Very Hot Day (novel) 1967
Heinemann, Larry
Paco's Story (novel) 1986
Herr, Michael
Dispatches (nonfiction) 1978
Huong, Duong Thu
∗Novel Without a Name (novel) 1995
∗Paradise of the Blind (novel) 1995
Kellogg, Ray and John Wayne
The Green Berets (film) 1968
Kennedy, Adrienne
An Evening with Dead Essex (drama) 1973
Komunyakaa, Yusef
Dien Cai Dau (poetry) 1988
Kubrick, Stanley
†Full Metal Jacket (film) 1987
Mailer, Norman
Why Are We in Vietnam (novel) 1967
Mann, Emily
Still Life (drama) 1980
Mason, Bobbie Ann
In Country (novel) 1984
McClure, James
Private Wars (drama) 1979
Moore, Robin
The Green Berets (novel) 1965
Mura, David
After We Lost Our Way (poetry) 1989
Nemerov, Howard
War Stories: Poems About Long Ago and Now (poetry) 1987
Ninh, Bao
∗The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam (novel) 1995
O'Brien, Tim
Going after Cacciato (novel) 1978
Rabe, David
The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (drama) 1968
Sticks and Bones (drama) 1969
Streamers (drama) 1976
Rottmann, Larry, Jan Barry, and Basil T. Pacquet
Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterams [editors] (poetry) 1972
Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg
Buffalo Afternoon (novel) 1989
Sloan, James Park
War Games (novel) 1971
Stanford, Frank
The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You (poem) 1977
Stone, Oliver
Platoon (film) 1986
Weigl, Bruce
Executioner (poetry) 1976
A Romance (poetry) 1979
The Monkey Wars (poetry) 1985
Woods, William Crawford
The Killing Zone (novel) 1970
Wright, Stephen
Meditations in Green (novel) 1983
∗These works were originally written and published in Vietnamese.
†The screenplay for this film was co-written by Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford, and Kubrick. The film is based on Hasford's novel The Short-timers (1979).
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