- Tim O'Brien. The Things They Carried. London: HarperCollins, 1991.
- Michael Herr. Dispatches. New York: Vintage, 1991.
- Myra McPherson. A Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation. New York: Anchor, 1993.
- William Appleman Williams, Thomas McCormick, Lloyd Gardner, W. Lafeber. America in Vietnam: A Documentary History. New York: W.W. Norton, 1989.
- Tim O'Brien. "Author's Home Page." 2009-01-02. <http://www.illyria.com/tobhp.html>.
- "Complete Index." 2009-01-02. <http://www.brtom.org/tttc/tttc1.html>.
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien