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Taylor, Robert
"The Innocent"

A  novel about the war with gay characters.   Nov 1997  

Templer, Robert
Shadows and Wind : A View of Modern Vietnam

The Communist government's schizophrenic economic policies, combined with a generation gap between the ruling party and the younger Vietnamese, have resulted in a people with little confidence in the government to better their lives. Templer profiles the role of the government in economic and cultural policies that are keeping Vietnam a backward country. Most interestingly, though, he examines the role of the determined Vietnamese people as they make inroads through tiny gaps in public policies to grow food in rural areas, build a life in the cities, and try to maintain their culture and religion. 

Taylor, Sandra C.
 Vietnamese Women at War : Fighting for Ho Chi Minh and the Revolution (Modern War Studies)

Jan. 1999

Terry, Wallace
Bloods

An oral history of black soldiers in Vietnam. This is a well edited and interesting series of interviews. It is one of the earlier books about the war, and has always been in print.   

Thieman, LeAnn & Sandra Dey [author website]
This Must Be My Brother

On Operation Babylift.  "I thought I was going to Vietnam to escort 6 kids to their families in the U.S. Instead the Divine plan for me was to help bring out 300!"

Tollefson, James W. 
Strength Not to Fight : Conscientious Objectors of the Vietnam War - In Their Own Words 

Tomes, Robert R.
Apocalypse Then : American Intellectuals and the Vietnam War, 1954-1975

October 1998

Tourison, Sedgwick
Project Alpha : Washington's Secret Military Operations in North Vietnam

July 1997  

Tripp, Nathaniel
Father, Soldier, Son : Memoir of a Platoon Leader in Vietnam

January 1997. 1st Infantry Division platoon leader 1968. This is a story not just of Vietnam, but of the author's life before and after. It got good reviews, but I haven't read it. 

Trotti, John
Phantom over Vietnam : Fighter Pilot, USMC

Nov 1996. 

Tucker, Spencer
Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War : A Political Social & Military History

Vietnam

Kirkus: "A concise, analytical survey of Vietnamese military history that concentrates on the French and American 20th-century wars. Former US Army captain Tucker (Military History/Virginia Military Institute) presents a readable, fact-filled examination of the military history of Vietnam. "

Turner, Fred
Echoes of Combat : The Vietnam War in American Memory

Nov 1996.

What does mean?  It is just my very subjective list of the top ten books to read about the Vietnam War.  I list them here.