Fiction Clark, Ann Nolan. To Stand Against the Wind. New York: Viking, 1978. Written shortly after the war, this story is a well-researched, sympathetic chronicle of a Mekong Delta family as it changes through the war years.

Dunn, Mary Lois. The Man in the Box.

New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. Written at the peak of America's involvement in the war, this is the tense story of an American flier who is saved from Viet Cong torture and death by kind villagers.

Garland, Sherry. Song of the Buffalo Boy.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, 1992. This compelling book follows the friendship, romance, and struggle for existence of a con-lai (mixed blood) girl and her sweetheart, in settings that reveal rural and urban life in Vietnam from 1973 to 1989.

Graham, Gail. Crossfire: A Vietnam Novel. Illustrated by David Stone Martin. New York: Pantheon, 1972.

This powerful story of a GI and four...