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Counter Insurgency in the Vietnam War A Bibliography
From the Collection of Reference Materials in the Resource
Library of the Vietnam Era Museum and Educational Center


Blackjack-33: With Special Forces in the Viet Cong Forbidden Zone by James C. Donahue (Ivy Books, 1999).

Codename Mule: Fighting the Secret War in Laos for the CIA by James E. Parker, Jr. (Naval Institute Press, 1995).

Combat Swimmer: Memoirs of a Navy SEAL by Captain Robert A. Gormly, USN (Ret.) (1998; Onyx, 1999).

Covert Warrior: Fighting the CIA's Secret War in Southeast Asia and China, 1965-1967 -- The Vietnam War Memoir of Warner Smith by Warner L. Smith (Presidio, 1996).

Death in the Delta: Diary of a Navy SEAL by Gary R. Smith and Alan Maki (1995; Ballantine Books, 1996).

Death in the Jungle: Diary of a Navy SEAL by Gary R. Smith and Alan Maki (1994; Ballantine Books, 1996).

Delta Force ["The world's finest counter-terrorist unit"] by Charles Beckwith & Donald Knox (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983).

First SEAL ["autobiography of the ... founder of the ... commando force: the U.S. Navy SEALs"] by Roy Boehm and Charles W. Sasser (Pocket Books, 1997).

From OSS to Green Berets by Col. Aaron Bank, USA (Ret.) ["Founder of the Green Berets"] (1986; Pocket Books, 1987).

The Hidden History of the Vietnam War by John Prados (Ivan R. Dee, Inc., 1995).

Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA by William Colby, Former CIA Director (Simon & Schuster, 1978).

Hunters and Shooters: An Oral History of the U.S. Navy SEALs in Vietnam edited by Bill Fawcett (William Morrow and Company, 1995).

Inside the Green Berets: The First Thirty Years--A History of the U.S. Army Special Forces by Charles M. Simpson III (Presidio, 1983).

Of Spies and Lies: A CIA Lie Detector Remembers Vietnam by John F. Sullivan (Univ. Press of Kansas, 2002).

Phoenix and the Birds of Prey: The CIA's Secret Campaign to Destroy the Viet Cong by Mark Moyar (Naval Institute Press, 1997).

The Phoenix Program ['The most ambitious and closely guarded operation of the Vietnam War'] by Douglas Valentine (William Morrow & Company, 1990).

Rogue Warrior ["autobiography of the ... founder of the U.S. Navy's top secret counterterrorist unit, SEAL Team Six"] by Richard Marcinko with John Weisman (Pocket Books, 1992).

SEALs: UDT/SEAL Operations in Vietnam by T.L. Bosiljevac (Paladin Press, 1990).

SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam by John L. Plaster (Simon & Schuster, 1997).

The Secret War Against Hanoi: Kennedy's and Johnson's Use of Spies, Saboteurs, and Covert Warriors in North Vietnam by Richard H. Shultz, Jr. (HarperCollins Publishers, 1999).

Secrets of the Vietnam War by Lt. General Phillip B. Davidson, USA (Ret.) (Presidio, 1990).

Shadow War: The CIA's Secret War in Laos by Keneth Conboy with James Morrison (Paladin Press, 1995).

Spies & Commandos: How America Lost the Secret War in North Vietnam by Kenneth Conboy & Dale Andrade (Univ. Press of Kansas, 2000).

Stalking the Vietcong" Inside Operation Phoenix--A Personal Account by Stuart A. Herrington (Presidio, 1982, 1997).

Swimmers among the Trees: SEAL Operations in the Vietnam War by Joel M. Hutchins (Presidio, 1996).

Tan Phu: Special Forces Team A-23 in Combat by Leigh Wade (Ivy Books, 1997).

War Stories of the Green Berets: The Viet Nam Experience by Hans Halberstadt (Motorbooks International, 1994).