I can't remember all the titles right now, and getting to the library is inconvenient this week... at any rate, besides the Time-Life series and the stuff Stanley Karnow has written, all of which is reduced to the level of a high-school frosh text in order to please the pseudo-patriots, here are some winners:William Corson: THE BETRAYAL
Neil Sheehan: A BRIGHT SHINING LIE
Wallace Terry: BLOODS
W.D. Ehrhardt: VIETNAM-PERKASIE: A MEMOIR
Loren Baritz: BACKFIRE
William Shawcross: SIDESHOW
Douglas Valentine: THE PHOENIX PROGRAM
and then of course there's that fictional precursor to fact,
Lederer and Burdick: THE UGLY AMERICAN
which I include for the sole reason that it really does predict the melodrama to come: a few people trying to do something good in the field being trumped by paranoid macho anticommunists running the show with the blessings of Washington DC...
