"There It Is": Narratives of the Vietnam War. Tom Burns

      

      ibidem-Press, Stuttgart

      Table of Contents

       Acknowledgments

       Introduction

       i. The Vietnam War

       ii. The Soldiers

       iii. The Narrative Literature of the War

       iv. The Present Study

       Part I Partisans

       Chapter One Early Adventurers

       i. Lieutenant-Colonel Landsdale

       ii. Graham Greene, The Quiet American (1955)

       iii. William J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick, The Ugly American (1958)

       iv. M. J. Bosse, The Journey of Tao Kim Nam (1959)

       v. Jean Lartéguy, Yellow Fever (1962; English Translation, 1965)

       vi. Epilogue: Ward Just, A Dangerous Friend (1999)

       Chapter Two Fictional History & Historical Fiction: The Fall of Diem

       i. President Ngo Dinh Diem

       ii. Stuart Hempstone, A Tract of Time (1966)

       iii. Robert Vaughn, The Valkyrie Mandate (1974)

       iv. Morris West, The Ambassador (1965)

       v. Conclusions

       Chapter Three Advisors & Friendlies: Pro-War Novels

       i. Optimism in the early phases

       ii. Robin Moore, The Green Berets (1965)

       iii. Scott C. S. Stone, The Coasts of War (1966)

       iv. Richard Newhafer, No More Bugles in the Sky (1966)

       v. Gene D. Moore’s The Killing at Ngo Tho (1967)

       vi. James Crumley, One to Count Cadence (1969)

       vii. Charles Larson, The Chinese Game (1969)

       vii. Conclusions

       Chapter Four Advisors & Friendlies II: Ambivalent Warriors

       i. Doubt sets in

       ii. David Halberstam, One Very Hot Day (1967)

       iii. Daniel Ford, Incident at Muc Wa (1968)

       iv. John Rowe, Count Your Dead (1968),

       v. Alan Clark, The Lion Heart: a Tale of the War in Vietnam (1969)

       vi. Josiah Bunting, The Lionheads (1972)

       vii. Bo Hathaway’s A World of Hurt (1981),

       viii. Donald McQuinn, Targets (1980)

       ix. Conclusions

       Chapter Five Soldiers & Civilians

       i. Protestors & Reporters

       ii. Norman Mailer, Armies of the Night (1968)

       iii. Pamela Sanders, Miranda (1978)

       iv. Thomas Fleming’s The Officers’ Wives (1981)

       v. Joan Didion, Democracy (1984)

       vi. Takeshi Kaiko’s Into a Black Sun: Vietnam 1964–65 (1968, English trans. 1983)

       vii. Bernard Kalb and Martin Kalb, The Last Ambassador (1981)

       viii. Conclusions

       Part II Modes and Genres

       Chapter Six Combat Memoirs

       i. Autobiographical War Writings

       ii. Ron Kovic, Born on the Fourth of July (1976)

       iii. Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War (1977)

       iv. Tim O’Brien, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home (1975)

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