LITERATURE OF THE VIET NAM WAR
First Year Seminar * Residential College * Rice Hall
Fall Semester 1996
Texts:
- Pham Van Ky, BLOOD BROTHERS
- Graham Green, THE QUIET AMERICAN
- Lederer and Burdick, THE UGLY AMERICAN
- Michael Herr, DISPATCHES
- Philip Caputo, A RUMOR OF WAR
- Norman Mailer, ARMIES OF THE NIGHT
- Le Ly Hayslip, WHEN HEAVEN AND EARTH CHANGED PLACES
- Three stories from Dann and Dann, IN THE FIELDS OF FIRE
- Bobbie Ann Mason, IN COUNTRY
Films:
- INDOCHINE
- GO TELL THE SPARTANS
- APOCALYPSE NOW
- FULL METAL JACKET
- PLATOON
- HEARTS AND MINDS
- CASUALTIES OF WAR
- BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
Main Points of Team Reports:
- Colonial
Policies
- Ho Chi
Minh
- Dien Bien
Phu
- Col. Edward
Landsdale
- Ngo Dinh
Diem
- The Tet
Offensive
- Steve
Warner's Letters
- Media
Portrayal of the War
- The Air
War
- Weapons:
Theirs and Ours
- The My Lai
Massacre
- The War at Home
- Before
and After the Lottery
- Paris
Peace Accords
- Evacuation of
Saigon
- Agent
Orange
Class Members
- Brian Annis
- Giselle Cruz
- Courtney Davis
- Rebecca Dawson
- Kara Elsden
- Melanie Gale
- Caitlin Howard
- Paul Koether
- Mandi Latronica
- Lauren Morrell
- Debora Pfaff
- January Stayton
- Jim Trakis
- Lauren-Beth Vlachos
- Lisa Washburn
- Kyra Winsky
Elaine Kesler '99 Professor Janet M. Powers
Student Associate Box 392 Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, PA 17325
jpowers@gettysburg.ed
[717] 337-6159 FAX: [717] 337-6172
Vietnam Photos by Steven Warner, Class of 1968
Courtesy of Special Collections, Gettysburg College
Photographs may not be reproduced except
with written permission of Special Collections.
For details, contact hedrick@gettysburg.edu