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

Frederick Downs, The Killing Zone (1978)

       vi. W.D. Ehrhart, Vietnam-Perkasie—A Combat Marine’s Memoir (1983)

       vii. Robert Mason, Chickenhawk (1983)

       viii. Tobias Wolff, In Pharoah’s Army—Memoirs of the Last War (1994)

       ix. Conclusions

       Chapter Seven Allegory

       i. Allegorical Vietnam

       ii. Jonathan Rubin, The Barking Deer (1974)

       iii. Asa Baber, The Land of a Million Elephants (1971)

       iv. Victor Kolpakoff, The Prisoners of Quai Dong (1967)

       v. Norman Mailer, Why Are in Vietnam? (1967)

       vi. Robert Stone, Dog Soldiers (1974)

       vii. Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (1975)

       viii. Conclusions

       Chapter Eight Combat Realism

       i. Conventions of Realism

       ii. Robert Roth, Sand in the Wind (1973)

       iii. Stephen Philip Smith, American Boys (1975)

       iv. Tom Suddick, A Few Good Men (1974)

       v. William Pelfrey, The Big V (1972)

       vi. William Turner Huggett, Body Count (1973)

       vii. Larry Heinemann, Close Quarters (1974)

       viii. Conclusion

       Chapter Nine Combat VS. Ideology

       i. Two Authors

       ii. James Webb, Fields of Fire (1978)

       iii. John Del Vecchio, The 13th Valley (1983)

       iv. Comparisons & Conclusions

       v. Epilogue: Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War (2010)

       Chapter Ten Deviations

       i. Alternatives to Realism

       ii. William Wilson, The LBJ Brigade (1966)

       iii. James Park Sloan, War Games (1971)

       iv. John Clark Pratt, The Laotian Fragments (1974) & Vietnam Voices (1984)

       v. Ward Just, Stringer (1984)

       vi. Lloyd Little, Parthian Shot (1975)

       vii. Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers (1979)

       viii. Conclusion

       Chapter Eleven Inventions: Fantasy & Metafiction

       i. Literature of the Optative Mode

       ii. William Eastlake, The Bamboo Bed (1969)

       iii. Tim O’Brien, Going After Cacciato (1975)

       iv. Nicholas Rinaldi, Bridge Fall Down (1985)

       v. Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried

       vi. Conclusions

       Chapter Twelve Correspondents

       i. Reporters in the Nam

       ii. Library of America collection: Reporting Vietnam (1998)

       iii. John Sack, M (1966)

       iv. Harrison E. Salisbury, Behind the Lines—Hanoi (1967)

       v. Jonathan Schell, The Village of Ben Suc (1967) & The Military Half (1968)

       vi. Gloria Emerson, Winners and Losers (1976)

       vii Mary McCarthy, Vietnam (1967) and Hanoi (1968)

       viii. James Jones’ Viet Journal (1973)

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