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

of the US Army patrolling the Laotian and Cambodian borders, but these developments came after those narrated in the novel.

41 Vaughn, Robert, The Valkyrie Mandate (New York: Simon and Shuster, 1974). Page numbers to this edition will be inserted within parentheses in the text.

42 Cf. Karnow’s summary of the coup in Vietnam—A History, p. 310.

43 West, Morris, The Ambassador (New York: Pocket Book edition, 1975). Page references to this edition will be inserted in parenthesis in the text.

44 Gettleman, Marvin, et al., Vietnam and America: A Documented History (New York: Grove Press, 1995), p. 227.

45 Gettleman, Vietnam and America, pp. 231-232.

46 Gettleman, The United States and Vietnam, pp. 235.

47 Schulzinger, A Time for War, p. 122.

48 Fitzgerald, Fire in the Lake, p. 102.

49 Herring, America’s Longest War, p. 63.

50 Karnow, Vietnam—A History, p. 293.

51 Fitzgerald, Fire in the Lake, pp. 72-137.

52 Herring, America’s Longest War, p. 64.

53 Fall, Bernard, The Two Vietnams: A Political and Military Analysis (New York; Praeger, 1967), p. 237.

54 Schulzinger, A Time for War, p. 94.

55 Young, The Vietnam Wars, p. 59.