Effects of Combat and the Surrounding Environment on A Soldier
The effects of combat and the surrounding environment on a soldier throughout the Vietnam War (relating it to PTSD)
These are the Primary and secondary sources that need to be used in this research paper. The MUST REQUIRED sources that have to be used are the memoirs written by Michael Herr, Philip Caputo, and Tim O’Brien.
They are listed directly below in the first section. The David Farber book does not have to be included. The Texas Tech website was recommended greatly for us to use because of their broad database that can access minute details on the Vietnam War.
Effects of Combat and the Surrounding Environment
There is not a required amount of sources. However, I would like at least 10 incorporated in the paper. I am new to this process and want to make sure this is not, in any way possible, plagiarized.
They check their papers through the Turn it in the database. I have always done my collegiate papers. However, I have multiple ones over 15 pages long including my Historical Methods class that I am primarily focusing on. This would be a great stress relief to me and my future career.
I would love this research paper to be very detailed on the psychological state that the Vietnam War had on the American soldiers. This includes the combat and environmental barriers/horrors that these soldiers faced every day. The research paper needs to be 11 pages (DOUBLE SPACED,
TIMES NEW ROMAN and 1″ MARGINS) and written in Chicago/Turabian format. The sources that are listed below should be used, especially the required sources. (Primary and Secondary)
Effects of Combat and the Surrounding Environment Required Reading: BOOKS:-
David Farber, Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s (New York: Hill and Wang, 1994) –
Michael Herr, Dispatches (New York: Penguin, 1977)-
Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War (1977; New York: Henry Holt, 1996)-
Tim O’Brien, If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home (New York: Broadway Books, 1975)
SUPPLEMENTAL REQUIRED SOURCES:
American Leadership-
Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson, “Why We Are in Vietnam,” July 28, 1965, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9KJyiXzp34
Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson, “Address to the Nation,” March 31, 1968, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFyhAcp2DG4
“Interview with William C. (William Childs) Westmoreland, 1981,” 04/27/1981, WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed January 8, 2016, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/vietnam-b463a4-interview-with-william-c-william-childs-westmoreland-1981
“Interview with Henry Kissinger, 1982,” 04/17/1982, WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed January 8, 2016,
http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/vietnam-ce422e-interview-with-henry-kissinger-1982
“Interview with Horace W. Busby, 1981,” 04/24/1981, WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed January 8, 2016,
http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/vietnam-fa3035-interview-with-horace-w-busby-1981
American Soldiers-
“Interview with John Kerry, 1982,” 11/05/1982, WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed January 8, 2016,
http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/vietnam-306cf2-interview-with-john-kerry-1982
“Interview with Charles Sabatier, 1982 [Part 1 of 2],” 10/08/1982, WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed January 8, 2016,
http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/vietnam-c7c7c9-interview-with-charles-sabatier-1982-part-1-of-2
“Interview with Charles Sabatier, 1982 [Part 2 of 2],” 10/08/1982, WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed January 8, 2016,
http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/vietnam-eebf58-interview-with-charles-sabatier-1982-part-2-o
Vietnamese Leadership –
“Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, 1945,” http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1945vietnam.html
“President Lyndon Johnson to Ho Chi Minh: Letter Exchange, 1967,” http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1967-vietnam-
letters1.html. –
“Interview with Vo Nguyen Giap,” Peoples Century: Guerrilla Wars, PBS,
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/episodes/guerrillawars/giaptranscript.html
Vietnamese Civilians and Soldiers-
“Interview with Ngo Thi Tan, 1981,” 02/26/1981, WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed January 8, 2016,
http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/vietnam-b18d7f-interview-with-ngo-thi-tan-1981.-
“Interview with Hoang Thi Dan, 1981,” 02/10/1981, WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed January 8, 2016,
http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/vietnam-1cdfee-interview-with-hoang-thi-dan-1981. – “Interview with Duong Long Sang, 1981,”
03/10/1981, WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed January 8, 2016, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/vietnam-3203c6-
interview-with-duong-long-sang-1981.
Recommended Sources:
PRIMARY SOURCES-
*Troung Nhu Tang, A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath(New York: Vintage Books, 1986)-
*Le Ly Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman’s Journey from War to Peace (New York: Penguin,
1990)-
*Dang Thuy Tram, Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram, transl. Andrew X. Pham (New York: Three Rivers
Press, 2007)-
*Robert S. McNamara and Brian VanDeMark, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam(New York: Times Books, 1995)-
*Marilyn B. Young, et al., eds., The Vietnam War: A History in Documents (New York Oxford University Press, 2002)
Effects of Combat and the Surrounding Environment Secondary Sources
Christian G. Appy, American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity (New York: Viking, 2015)-
Gregory Daddis, Westmoreland’s War: Reassessing American Strategy in Vietnam (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014)
4- George C. Herring, America’s Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975, 5th Ed. (New York: McGraw Hill, 2013)-
Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam (Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 2012)-
Ron Milam, Not a Gentleman’s War: An Inside View of Junior Officers in the Vietnam War (Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 2009)-
Mark Atwood Lawrence, The Vietnam War: A Concise International History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008)-
Robert D. Schulzinger, A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997) –
Stanley Karnow, Vietnam: A History (1984; New York: Penguin, 1997)
WEBSITES-The Vietnam Collection, WGBH Open Vault, from http://openvault.wgbh.org/collections/vietnam-the-vietnam-collection#Interviews –
The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, from http://www.vietnam.ttu.edu –
- Mintz and S. McNeil, “Explorations: The Vietnam War as History,” Digital History from
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/vietnam/vietnam_menu.cfm
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