~Marilyn Knapp Litt
Celebration of Patriotism and
Courage
Washington DC: Vietnam Women’s Memorial Project, 1993. A magazine prepared for the dedication of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial that includes essays by nurses.
Connections, Newsletter of the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences.
University of Massachusetts at Boston, June 1990.
Newsweek. "Women Vets."
Nov 12, 1984.
"Not
on the Front Line"
1991 Video, Nebraska ETV. 30 min. with nurses, entertainers, and Donut Dollys.
Vietnam. "Personality."
By David V. Pyle, April 1995. An article about Captain Mary Klinker and the C-5a Babylift crash.
Vietnam Women's Memorial: A Commemorative
Published January 1997. This is book of short biographies of women who served, civilian and military, stewardesses to nurses. Orders to: Vietnam Women's Memorial, Turner Publishing Company, Paducah, KY
Anderson, Donald. "Visions of War, Dreams of Peace: A Conversation with
Joan Furey.
War, Literature & the Arts Vol. 11, Number 2, Fall-Winter 1999
Baker, Rodney R. 1989. "The Military Nurse Experience in Vietnam: Stress and Impact."
Journal of Clinical Psychology 45(5): 736-744.
Beesley,
Stanley W. Vietnam: The Heartland Remembers.
Norman, Ok.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. pp. 8-9, 108, 157, 187. A few short essays by Marguerite Giroux who was a nurse with the Third Surgical Hospital, Bien Hoa, 1965-66. She discusses her service in Vietnam and coming home.
Bigler,
Philip. Hostile Fire: The Life and Death of First Lieutenant
Sharon Lane.
Arlington, Va.: Vandamere Press, 1996.
Breuer,
William B. War and American
Women : Heroism, Deeds, and Controversy
Contains stories from nurses who served. (Chapter 10) Praeger Pub Trade: March 1, 1997
Cammermeyer, Margarethe with Chris Fisher. Serving in Silence
Biography. I'm not sure how much of this book deals with her Vietnam service. Penguin: October 1995
Deardorf, Barbara and Diane DuPont,
Linda Goodheart, Rhonda Prescott, Ann Thompson. Another Kind Of War
Story: Army Nurses Look Back To Vietnam.
Edelman, Bernard,
ed. Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam.
New York: Dutton, 1967. Two letters from Lynda Van Devanter who was a nurse with the 71st Evac- Pleiku, and the 67th Evac -Qui Nhon, June 1969-70. pp. 195-196, 232-234. One letter from Sharon Lane, her last letter. She was a nurse with 312th Evac - Chu Lai, April 1969 -June 1969. pp 312-314.
Freedman, Dan, and Jacquelin Rhoads,
editors. Nurses in Vietnam: The Forgotten Veterans.
Austin, Tex.: Texas Monthly, Press, 1987.
Hallock, Daniel William, Thich Nhat Hanh, Philip Berrigan. Hell, Healing, and Resistance : Veterans Speak
A collection of interviews with veterans, family members, and war protestors. A nurse is interviewed.
Hansel, Sarah, and Ann
Steidle,
Grace Zaczek, and Ron Zaczek, editors. Soldier's Heart: Survivors' Views of Combat Trauma
A collection of prose, poetry, and art by veterans, male and female.
Hampton, Lynn. The Fighting Strength: Memoirs of a Combat Nurse in Vietnam.
New York: Warner, 1992.
Hansen,
J.T.; A. Susan Owen and Michael Patrick Madden. Parallels: The Soldiers' Knowledge and the Oral History of Contemporary
Warfare
Includes the story of nurse Nikki Nicol. Published by Aldine De Gruyter: March 1992
Hendrix,
John-Michael. To Have and to Hold
A scout pilot's memoir which is also about his courtship with a nurse from the 85th Evac. Emerald City Publishing
Hendrickson, Paul. The Living and the Dead : Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War
Includes an interview with a nurse. Published September 1996.
Hovis,
Bobbi. Station Hospital Saigon: A Navy Nurse in Vietnam,
1963-1964.
Annapolis Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1991.
Kelley, William E., editor. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the War Veteran Patient (Brunner Mazel Psychosocial Stress, Vol 5)
Essays including one on women in Vietnam. I'm assuming it mentions nurses. 1985.
Marshall, Kathryn. In the Combat Zone: An Oral History of American Women in Vietnam,
1966-1975.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1987. Collection of interviews with women who served
MacPherson,
Myra. Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted
Generation, New York: Doubleday, 1984.
There is a chapter titled "The Women Who Went" which contains interviews with several nurses.
Maurer,
Harry. Strange Ground: Americans in Vietnam, 1945-1975: An Oral
History. NY: Holt, 1989. Paperback 1990.
Includes a section on a nurse, Jane Piper.
Moore, Constance J. Oral History Reflections of Army Nurse Vietnam Veterans: Managing the Demanding Experience of War.
MA thesis, San Jose State U. Unpublished.
Norman, Elizabeth M. After the Casualties: Vietnam Nurses' Identities and Career Decisions.
Reprinted in Journal of Military Nursing and Research. Vol. 1 No. 3, pp25 - 29, 1995.
Norman, Elizabeth M. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder In Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam During the War Years 1965-1973.
Reprinted in Journal of Military Nursing and Research. Vol. 1 No. 1, 18-22, 1995.
Norman, Elizabeth M. Nurses in War: A Study of Female Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam During the War Years 1965-1973.
PhD dss, NYU, 1986.
Norman,
Elizabeth M. Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military
Nurses Who Served in Vietnam.
Philadelphia: University of Pensylvania Press, 1990.
Nuland, Sherwin B. The Face of Mercy: A Photographic History of Medicine at War.
New York: Random House, 1993.
O'Neill,
Susan. Don't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Vietnam
New York: Random House, 2001. One of the few works of fiction.
Palmer,
Laura. Shrapnel in the Heart.
New York: Random House, 1987. Includes an interview with an army nurse. Not to be missed. (see the website)
Palmer, Laura. 1993. "How to Bandage a War: The Nurses of Vietnam Still
Wounded."
_New York Times Magazine_ November 7: 36-43, 68, 72-73.
Powell, Mary Reynolds.
A World of Hurt: Between Innocence & Arrogance in Vietnam.
Cleveland: Greenleaf Book, 2000.
Rothblum,
Esther D. and Ellen Cole, editors. Silenced
Trauma: Twelve Feminist Therapists and Activists Respond to One Woman's Recovery From War
About a recovering alcoholic and Vietnam veteran with PTSD who was a Navy nurse. It is not about one patient with twelve therapists! Other than the woman's own therapist, the essayists are responding with the program each would suggest based on the case notes they were given. I found it quite interesting. Originally published as A Woman's Recovery From the Trauma of War and also as Women & Therapy, Volume 5, Number 1, Spring 1986
Santoli,
Al. Everything We Had.
New York: Ballentine Books, 1982. Includes a very interesting interview with an army nurse.
Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann. The Healer’s War. New York: Bantom Books, 1988.
A sci-fi/fanatsy novel about a nurse in Vietnam, which Scarborough was.
Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann. An interview with a Vietnam nurse : Elizabeth Ann Scarborough author of
The healer's war.
New York : Bantam, [1989?] 1 folded sheet (4 p.) : port. ; 22 cm. "Interview with the author issued by Bantam Books in leaflet form as promotion for the novel." Call Number: PS3569.C324H43 1989 -LaSalle University, Connelly Library, 1900 W. Olney Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19141-1199
Schnaier, Jenny A.: Women Vietnam Veterans and Their Mental Health Adjustment: A Study of Their Experiences and Post-Traumatic Stress.
Master Thesis University of Maryland 1982. Ph.D. dissertation. In vol. 2 of Trauma and its Wake, ed. Charles Figley. New York: Brunner & Mazel; 1986.
Smith,
Winnie. American Daughter Gone to War: On the Front Lines
With an Army Nurse in Vietnam.
New York: Morrow, 1992. A very good autobiography, one of the top books here.
Sonnenberg,
Stephen M., M.D., Blank, Arthur S., Jr., M.D., Talbott, John A., M.D. editors. The Trauma of War: Stress and Recovery in Viet Nam Veterans.
Washington D.C.: American Psychiatric Press, 1985.
Spelts, Doreen. 1986. "Nurses Who Served---And Did Not Return."
American Journal of Nursing 86(9): 1035-1037.
Stanton-Bandiero, M. P. et.al.The War Experience For Nurse Veterans: A Secondary Data Analysis.
Journal of Military Nursing and Research. Vol. 2 No. 1, pp12 - 17, 1996.
Stretch RH, Vail JD, Maloney JP. Posttraumatic stress disorder among Army Nurse Corps Vietnam veterans.
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology ,1985 Oct; 53 (5):704-708.
Van
Devanter, Lynda. Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse
in Vietnam.
New York: Beaufort Books, 1983. This excellent autobiography should be your starting place, as it was for many of the authors on this list.
Van Devanter, Lynda and
Furey, Joan, editors. Visions of War, Dreams of Peace : Writings of
Women in the Vietnam.
New York: Warner Books, 1991 Don’t overlook this important resource.
Walker,
Keith. A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of 26 American Women Who
Served in Vietnam.
Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1985. Includes interviews with nurses.
White,
Ellen Emerson. The Road Home
Point Signature: November 1995. A novel about a nurse by a non-veteran. If you read it, you will not question its inclusion here.
Zeinert,
Karen. The Valiant Women of the Vietnam War
Brookfield, CT: The Millbrook Press: 2000. Young Adult book that can be read by anyone for an overview of all the women who served. Includes interviews.
Thank you to Sandra Wittman for providing the
backbone and starting point of this bibliography with her bibliography:
Vietnam: The Women's Experience
My Vietnam Related Websites:
Women in Vietnam
~ Not only nurses served . . .
Dusty's Home Page
~ Poetry and prose by a woman who was a nurse in Vietnam
Emily's
Poetry ~ By a Red Cross Donut Dolly
Battle Dressing ~ The Journey of a Nurse in Vietnam
Tim O'Brien's Home Page
~ National Book Award Winner and Americal Vet
Shrapnel in the Heart
~ The most moving book you will read on Vietnam
The
Irish on the Wall ~ An effort to locate the Irish who died in Vietnam
Project
Hearts and Minds ~ Help put Viet Nam back together
All About Vietnam
~ An annotated bibliography of books about Vietnam for sale thru Amazon
Worldwide!
Photos from a Holts' Military History Tour
~ My trip to
Vietnam, February 1998
Illinois
Vietnam Women's Memorial ~ Honoring all the Illinois women who served
My Other Websites:
Chicago
Theatre Z - A ~ This is the best theater town in the country!
Writers
Theatre of Chicago ~ And this is the best theater in town
Literature
of the Korean War ~ Don't let the literature be forgotten
Poetry
of the First World War ~ Owen, Hardy and others
Samuel
Pepys ~ One of my favorite authors
Gil
Thorp ~ THE Coach
Maybe
Later . . . ~ My Creative Nonfiction
Chi-COW-go
~ Cowz plus Commentary (this used to be a cow town)
Graham
Fulton, Scottish Poet ~ Charles Manson Auditions for the Monkees
Soccer
Literature ~ I'm a fan and I read
O'Leary
Lantern ~ Fire! Fire! Fire!
Other Important Websites:
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~ Connecting Authors and Writers Worldwide
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