"The C.I.C. listened patiently to his touching patriotic tale and then twisted his arm and tweaked his ear, so to speak, and slapped his wrist and rapped his kunckles a bit...until he sang like a song bird."
America's Secret Army

VIETNAM WAR

And a Hard Rain Fell. .. A GI’s True Story of the War in Vietnam 
by John Ketwig (Sourcebooks, 2002, 2007)


The War Behind Me -- Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth about US War Crimes
by Debroah Nelson (Basic Books 2008)

The Things They Carried (fiction)
by Tim O’Brien (Broadway Books, 1990)

A Rumor of War 
by Philip Caputo (Henry Holt &Company, 1977, 1996)

Dispatches
by Michael Herr (Vintage International 1991, originally1968)

Achilles in Vietnam -- Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character 
by Jonathan Shay M.D., PhD (Scribner, 1994)

Voices from Vietnam 
written and photographed by Charlene Edwards (Journeys 2002)

The Vietnam War for Dummies
by Ronald B. Frankum, Jr. and Stephen F. Maxner (Wiley Publishing, 2003)


POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER AND THE FAMILY

Odysseus in America – Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming 
by Jonathan Shay M.D., PhD

Back from the Front –Combat Trauma, Love, and the Family
by Aphrodite Matsakis, Ph.D. (Sidran Institute Press, 2007)

Vietnam Wives
by Aphriodite Matsakis,Ph.D. (The Sidran Press, second edition 1996)


WORLD WAR II IN ITALY

A Thread of Grace (a novel)
by Mary Doria Russell (Bantam 2004)

War in Italy 1943-1945 – A Brutal Story
by Richard Lamb (DaCapo Press, 1993)

The War North of Rome -- June 1944 – May 1945
by Thomas R. Brooks (Castle Books, 1996, 2001)

The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (Liberation Trilogy) 
by Rick Atkinson (Henry Holt and Company 2007) 

The Last Soldiers of the King -- Wartime Italy 1943-1945
by Eugenio Corti (University of MIssouri Press 2003)


SPY-CATCHING IN WORLD WAR II

A Man Called Intrepid
by William Stevenson (Harcourt Brace, 1976)

Counter Intelligence Corps

We Caught Spies
by John Schwarzwalder (Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946)

History and Mission of the Counter Intelligence Corps in World War II
by C.I.C. School Intelligence Corps Center at the National Archives

America’s Secret Army
by Ian Sayer and Douglas Botting (Franklin Watts, 1989)






Some Good Reads
All photos this page from the National Archives.