Gathers original newspaper and magazine articles to capture the immediacy of events as they happened during the course of the war.

Originally published as 2 vol. set: 1998. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- TlME Death at Intermission Time -- First U.S. Advisers Killed in South Vietnam: July 1919 -- MALCOLM W. BROWNE Paddy War -- Guerrilla War i the Mekong Delta: December 1961 -- HOMER BIGART A "Very Real War" in Vietnam and the Deep U.S. Commitment -- Increasing American Involvement: February 1962 -- BERNARD B. FALL Master of the Red Jab -- Interview with Ho Chi Minh: July 1962 -- MALCOLM W. BROWNE "He Was Sitting in the Center of a Column of Flame" -- Suicide in Saigon: June 1963 -- STANLEY KARNOW The Fall of the House of Ngo Dinh -- Overthrow of Diem: November 1963 -- DAVID HALBERSTAM "They Can Win a War If Someone -- Shows Them How" -- Profile of John Paul Vann: 1962-1964 -- U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT "We Are Losing, Morale -- Is Bad ... If They'd Give Us Good Planes ..." -- A Pilot's Letters Home: November 1963-March 1964 -- MEG GREENFIELD After the Washington Teach-In -- Controversy Over the War Intensifies: May 1965 -- DON MOSER Eight Dedicated Men Marked for Death -- Struggle for Loc Dien: Summer 1965 -- BERNARD B. FALL Vietnam Blitz: A Report on the Impersonal War -- American Buildup: September 1965 -- SPECIALIST 4/C JACK P. SMITH Death in the Ia Drang Valley -- "Men All Around Me Were Screaming": November 1965 -- HENRY F. GRAPF Teach-In on Vietnam By ... The -- President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of State -- The Administration Defends Its Policies: February 1966. WARD S. JUST Reconnaissance -- Combat in the Central Highlands: June 1966 -- NEIL SHEEHAN Not a Dove, But No Longer a Hawk -- Veteran Reporter Reassesses the War: October 1966 -- BERNARD B. FALL "Unrepentant, Unyielding": An -- Interview with Viet Cong Prisoners -- U.S. Offensive in the Iron Triangle: January 1967 -- JONATHAN RANDAL U.S. Marines Seize 3d Hill in Vietnam After I2-Day Push -- Khe Sanh Hill Fights: May 1967 -- JONATHAN SCHELL from The Military Half: An Account of the Destruction in Quang Ngai and Quang Tin -- Southern I Corps: August 1967 -- MICHAEL J. ARLEN A Day in the Life -- A TV Crew at Con Thien: September 1967 -- NORMAN MAILER from The Armies of the Night -- The March on the Pentagon: October 1967 -- PETER ARNETT Hill -- Battle of Dak To: November 1967 -- TOM WOLPE The Truest Sport: Jousting with Sam and Charlie -- Air War Over North Vietnam: December 1967 -- DON OBERDORER from Tet! -- The Viet Cong in Hue: January-February 1968 -- MICHAEL HERR from Dispatches: "Hell Sucks" -- Hue: February 1968 -- JOHN T. WHEELER Life in the V Ring -- Khe Sanh Under Siege: February 1968 -- MARY MCCARTHY Hanoi-March 1968 -- An American in North Vietnam: March-April 1968 -- THOMAS A. JOHNSON The U.S. Negro in Vietnam -- Black Servicemen and the War: 1968 -- KEVIN BUCKLEY A Small Contribution -- Firefight Near Loc Ninh: October 1968 -- ZALIN GRANT "We Lived for a Time Like Dogs." American POWs in a Jungle Camp: July 1968-January 1969 -- JEFFREY BLANKFORT Our Town: The War -- Comes Home to Beallsville, Ohio -- A Small Town Mourns Its Dead: Spring 1969 -- WALLACE TERRY Black Power in Viet Nam -- Racial Tensions in the Military: September 1969 -- PETER R KANN A Long, Leisurely Drive Through -- Mekong Delta Tells Much of the War -- Pacification and Vietnamization: November 1969 -- SEYMOUR M. HERSH The My Lai Massacre -- An Atrocity Is Uncovered: November 1969 -- T.D. ALLMAN Massacre at Takeo -- Cambodia: April 1970 -- JAMES A. MICHENER from Kent State: What Happened and Why -- Kent, Ohio: May 1970 -- STEWART ALSOP The American Class System -- Fairness and the Draft: 1970 -- JOHN SAAR You Can't Just Hand Out Orders -- An Army of Reluctant Draftees: October 1970 -- DORIS KEARNS from Who Was Lyndon Baines Jonnson? -- LBJ Remembers Vietnam: 1970 -- JOHN E. WOODRUFF The Meo of Laos -- The Hmong: February 1971 -- GLORIA EMERSON Copters Return from Laos with the. Dead -- "A small despairing scene": February 1971 -- GLORIA EMERSON Spirit of Saigon's Army Shaken in Laos -- "They all became dust": March 1971 -- KARL FLEMING The Homecoming of Chris Mead -- A Veteran Returns: March 1971. -- DONALD KIRK Who Wants To Be the Last American -- Killed in Vietnam? -- Troop Withdrawals and Morale: August 1971 -- TOM BUCKLEY Portrait of an Aging Despot -- A Visit with General Loan: 1971 -- ROBERT SHAPLEN We Have Always Survived. Life in Saigon: Spring 1972 -- JOHN SAAR Report from the Inferno -- The North Vietnamese Offensive: April 1972 -- PETER BRAESTRUP The South Vietnamese Army -- Commanders and Soldiers: July 1972 -- JOSEPH KRAFT Letter from Hanoi -- "We have been fighting eleven centuries": July 1972 -- HUNTER S. THOMPSON from Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail -- Protests at the Republican Convention, Miami: August 1972 -- FOX BUTTERFIELD Who Was This Enemy? -- Writings by North Vietnamese Soldiers: 1973 -- ARNOLD R. ISAACS War Lingers in Hamlets as Cease-Fire Hour Passes -- After the Cease-Fire: January 1973 -- JOHN S. MCCAIN III How the POW's Fought Back -- A Navy Pilot in North Vietnam: October 1967-March 1973 -- SYDNEY H. SCHANBERG Bomb Error Leaves Havoc in Neak Luong -- War in Cambodia: August 1973 -- DONALD KIRK "I watched them saw him 3 days" A Khmer Rouge Execution: July 1974 -- PAUL VOGLE A Flight Into Hell -- The Fall of Danang: March 1975 -- LE KIM DINH For Those Who Flee, Life Is -- "Hell on Earth" -- Refugees at Cam Ranh Bay: April 1975 -- SYDNEY H. SCHANBERG The Fall of Phnom Penh -- Cambodia: April-May 1975 -- PHILIP CAPUTO "Running Again-the Last Retreat" -- Refugees on "the street without joy": April 1975 -- KEYES BEECH We Clawed for Our Lives! -- A Reporter Flees Saigon: April 1975 -- BOB TAMARKIN Diary of S. Viet's Last Hours -- The Evacuation Ends: April 1975 -- MALCOLM W. BROWNE Tenderness, Hatred and Grief Mark Saigon's Last Days -- "Vietnam's black fate": May 1975.