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Vietnam War Peace Agreement Anniversary

Forty years ago, on Januuary 27, 1973 the Paris Peace Accords were signed - ending the Vietnam War. During the long conflict, the United States suffered over 58,000 soldiers killed and approximately 153, 000 wounded, as well as 1,943 missing in action.

A bright shining lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan

Ending the Vietnam War: a history of America's involvement in and extrication from the Vietnam War by Henry Kissinger

The best and the brightest by David Halberstam

The making of a quagmire: America and Vietnam during the Kennedy era by David Halberstam ; edited with an introduction by Daniel J. Singal

Dispatches by Michael Herr

Reporting Vietnam: American journalism 1959-1975 by introduction by Ward Just

Vietnam: a history by Stanley Karnow

We were soldiers once... and young: Ia Drang— the battle that changed the war in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway

A rumor of war by Philip Caputo

Once upon a distant war by William Prochnau

The Vietnam reader: the definitive collection of American fiction and nonfiction on the war by edited by Stewart O'Nan

Secrets: a memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon papers by Daniel Ellsberg

Dear America [videodisc]: letters home from Vietnam by Home Box Office presents a co-production of the Couturie Co and the Vietnam Veterans Ensemble Theatre Co. ; director, Bill Couturie ; producers, Bill Couturie & Thomas Bird ; screenplay by Richard Dewhurst & Bill Couturie