Sandra Marie Wittman Collection (1692) Finding Aid
Collection Item Number: 16920000000
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- Sandra Marie Wittman Collection
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Creation: 17 November 2005
Scope and Contents
Tunnel detection and neutralization documents, book catalogues, scholarly papers, a bibliography of Vietnam-related books, periodicals (1960s-present) and 155 books on Vietnam, all of which were collected by Sandra Marie Wittman, document different aspects of the Vietnam Conflict and its legacies.Biographical / Historical
Sandra Marie Wittman earned her Bachelors of Education Degree in 1965 at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. She then attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the Dominican University (Rosary College) in River Forest, Illinois to obtain her MALS in 1975. She then became a professor at Oakton Community College and later an English teacher at two different Wisconsin high schools. She is the author of Writing About Vietnam: A Bibliography of the Literature of the Vietnam Conflict (G.K. Hall, 1989) and a contributor to The Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social and Miliary History , edited by Spencer C. Tucker (ABC-Clio, 1998).- 137
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Pawns: A Journey into Vietnam by Steve Abbate, 1993/2nd
Credibility Gap: A Digest of the Pentagon Papers by Len Ackland, No Date
The 2nd Promise by Jack D. Adams, 1990/1st
Offerings at the Wall: Artifacts from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection by Thomas B. Allen, 1995/1st
Adventures in Hell, Volume One by David "Doc" Andersen (Ed.), 1990/1st
Aftermath: An Anthology of Post-Vietnam Fiction by Donald Anderson (ed.), 1995/1st
Vietnam: Insights by Robert P. Arnoldt, 1991/1st
Tunnel Rats: Mud and Blood by Cliff Banks, 1990/1st
The War Zone by John Barr, 1989/1st
Simonides in Vietnam: An Other Epigrams by R. L. Barth, 1990/1st
Vietnamerica: The War Comes Home by Thomas A. Bass, 1996/1st
Blind Side by William Bayer, 1990/1st
Re-Writing America: Vietnam Authors in Their Generation by Philip D. Beidler, 1991/1st
After Sorrow: An American Among the Vietnamese by Lady Borton, 1995/1st
SEALs: UDT/SEAL Operations in Vietnam by T. L. Bosiljevac, 1990/1st
Wall of Blood (Combat Ready Series, Book 1) by Fred Leo Brown, 1992/1st
Seeing Vietnam: Encounters of the Road and Heart by Susan Brownmiller, 1994/1st
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler, 1992/1st
Prisoner in Viet Nam by Marc Cayer, 1990/1st
Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam by Paul Clayton, 2002/1st
The Vietnam Guidebook by Barbara Cohen, 1991/2nd
The Vietnam Guidebook by Barbara Cohen, 1990/1st
Russian language book by A.A. Cokoob, 1998/1st
The Intruders by Stephen Coonts, 1994/1st
The Betrayal by William R. Corson, 1968/1st
In the Field of Fire by Jeanne Van Buren Dann (ed.), 1987/1st
Another Kind of War Story: Army Nurses Look Back to Vietnam by Barb Deardorff, 1993/1st
Vietnam: Even God is Against Us by Austin Deuel, 1988/1st
The Edge of Honor by P.T. Deutermann, 1995/1st
The Mask by Frank Di Fiore, 1986/1st
From Hanoi to Hollywood: The Vietnam War in American Film by Linda Dittmar (ed.), 1990/1st
War and Peace in Literature by Lucy Dougall, 1982/1st
Voices From Captivity by Robert C. Doyle, 1994/1st
Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family by Nguyen Duc Qui, 1994/1st
Novel Without a Name by Thu Huong Duong, 1995/1st
Paradise of the Blind by Thu Huong Duong, 1993/1st
Devil's Guard by George Robert Elford, 1971/1st
Culture Shock!: Vietnam by Claire Ellis, 1995/1st
Women and War by Jean Bethke Elshtain, 1987/1st
Echo Company # 1: Welcome to Vietnam by Zack Emerson, 1991/1st
Devils With Green Faces: Navy SEALs in Vietnam by Jerry J. Fletcher, 1989/1st
Take Back the Night by Dennis Foley, 1996/1st
Angel Fire by Ron Franscell, 2000/2nd
Blue Rain by Chuck Freadhoff, 1999/1st
America Rediscovered: Critical Essays on Literature and Film of the Vietnam War by Owen W. Gilman, Jr. (ed.), 1990/1st
Hatchet: Spectre by Knox Gordon, 1992/1st
Hatchet: The Frenchman by Knox Gordon, 1992/1st
Dragonfly by Vince Gotera, 1994/1st
Vietnam: A Visual Encyclopedia by Philip Gutzman, 2002/1st
Blue Deep by Layne Heath, 1993/1st
In the River Sweet by Patricia Henley, 2002/1st
Caught Up In Time: Oral History Narratives of Appalachian Vietnam Veterans by John Hennen, 1988/1st
The Shock of Battle (Occasional Paper No. 16) by Harry Heseltine (Ed.), No Date
Then the American Came: Voices from Vietnam by Martha Hess, 1993/1st
Buy Me, Saigong Tea? by Clay Higgins, 1991/1st
Sparring with Charlie: Motorbiking Down the Ho Chi Minh Trail by Christopher Hunt, 1996/1st
South Wind Changing by Jade Ngoc Quang Huynh, 1994/1st
Fourteen Landing Zones: Approaches to Vietnam War Literature by Philip K. Jason (ed.), 1991/1st
Under the Southern Cross: A Feeling of War by R. Bruce Johnson, 1990/3rd
Repression of Montagnards: Conflicts Over Land and Religion in Vietnam's Central Highlands by Sidney Jones (ed.), 2002/1st
Moc Hoa: A Vietnam Medical-Military Adventure by Larry P. Kammholz, M.D., 1990/1st
Vietnam, A History: The First Complete Account of Vietnam at War by Stanley Karnow, 1983/1st
Crazyhead by John Klawitter, 1990/1st
Highways to a War by Christopher J. Koch, 1995/1st
Trauma and the Vietnam War Generation by Richard A. Kulka, Ph.D., 1990/1st
Where the Light is as Darkness: Vietnam Poems by Kellan Kyllo, 1996/1st
Vietnam: Poetic Words From the Unknowns by Jim Lakewind, 1992/1st
Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns by David Lamb, 2002/1st
The Battles of Peace by Michael Lee Lanning, 1992/1st
The Cat From Hue: A Vietnam War Story by John Laurence, 2002/1st
The Mark: A War Correspondent's Memoir of Vietnam and Cambodia by Jacques Leslie, 1995/1st
War Story: The Creation of the American War in Vietnam by Longarm, 2004/1st
Tell Me Lies About Vietnam by Alf Louvre (ed.), 1988/1st
Shadows From a Cabin Night by Don Luce, No Date
Floating City by Eric Lustbader, 1995/1st
Memories of Vietnam by Kenneth Maddock (Ed.), 1991/1st
Jungle in Black by Steve Maguire, 1992/1st
Dear Mom, I'm Alive: Letters Home From Blackwidow 25 by Randolph P. Mains, 1992/1st
Z-Comm: MIA by Kyle Maning, 1989/1st
Decade of Protest: Political Posters from the United States, Viet Nam, Cuba, 1965-1975 by Susan Martin, 1996/1st
What Should We Tell Our Children About Vietnam? by Bill McCloud, 1989/1st
The Vietnam Book List by Ben McDonald, 1991/1st
Guts & Glory by Randall K. McGlone, 1992/1st
In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam by Robert S. McNamara, 1995/1st
Vietnam in American Literature by Philip H. Melling, 1990/1st
The Red Pagoda by Robert Mendelsohn, 1992/1st
Command and Control by James D. Mitchell, 1989/1st
We Were Soldiers Once… And Young by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore, 1993/1st
Twenty Years Plus: A Swamp Rat's Diary by Sgt. Arthur R. Moore, 1991/1st
First Blood by David Morrell, 1972/1st
Hitchhiking Vietnam: A Woman's Solo Journey in an Elusive Land by Karin Muller, 1998/1st
Vietnam War Literature: An Annotated Bibliography of Imaginative Works About Americans Fighting in Vietnam by John Newman, 1988/2nd
The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam by Bao Ninh, 1993/1st
Walking the Rez Road by Jim Northrup, 1993/1st
For Rouenna by Sigrid Nunez, 2001/1st
The Vietnam Reader by Stewart O'Nan (ed.), 1998/1st
Ridding the Devils: Vietnam Revisited by Frank Palmos, 1991/2nd
Mack Bolan: The Executioner 43: Return to Vietnam by Don Pendleton, 1982/1st
The Cost of War: Recollections of the Vietnam War by Twenty-Three Veterans by Craig Reed, 1989/1st
The Harvest Bride by Tony Richards, 1987/1st
POW/MIA - America's Missing Men: The Men We Left Behind by Chimp Robertson, 1995/1st
Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia: A Travel Survival Kit by Daniel Robinson, 1991/1st
Heading Home by Daniel R. Rodrique, 1992/1st
Voices From the Ho Chi Minh Trail: Poetry of America and Vietnam, 1965-1993 by Larry Rottmann, 1993/1st
Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans by Larry Rottmann (Ed.), 1972/2nd
The Vietnam War and American Culture by John Carlos Rowe (Ed.), 1991/1st
Hell in a Helmet: Memoirs of a Marine Infantryman by Richard Allen Russell, 1989/1st
The American Experience in Vietnam by Grace Sevy (ed.), 1989/1st
Achilles in Vietnam by Johnathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D., 1994/1st
After the War Was Over: Hanoi and Saigon by Neil Sheehan, 1992/1st
Charlie Don't Live Here Anymore by David Sherman, 1989/1st
Debriefings by Stephen Sossaman, 2001/1st
Atrocities (Hiram Poetry Review Supplement No. 10) by Geoffrey Stamm, 1989/1st
Message From Nam by Danielle Steel, 1990/1st
Book 1: Heroes by Dick Stivers, 1992/1st
White Star by James Thayer, 1995/1st
The Girl in the White Shirt at My Lai: Poems by Antony Tripi, 2013 (signed by author)
Stare into Her Cry: Poems in a Time of Madness by Antony Tripi, 2005
Vietnam by Spencer C. Tucker, 1999 (inscribed by author)
Don't Bunch Up*: One Marine's Story *and some notable exceptions by William Van Zanten, 1993/1st
The Quick and the Dead by Robert Vaughan, 1984/1st
Blood on the Lotus by Lawrence C. Vetter, Jr., 1990/1st
Goodbye Saigon by Nina Vida, 1994/1st
For America: Stories and Poems of Vietnam and Other Things by Louis Osborne Vipperman, 1989/1st
Vietnam Images: War and Representation by Jeffrey Walsh (ed.), 1989/1st
The Tet Offensive by Charles Wills, 1989/1st
REMF Diary by David A. Willson, 1988/1st
Winthrop Remembers: Reflections of the Vietnam War by Winthrop High School, 1992/1st
Romancing Vietnam: Inside the Boat Country by Justin Wintle, 1991/1st
In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War by Tobias Wolff, 1994/1st
Paper Soldiers: The American Press and the Vietnam War by Clarence R. Wyatt, 1993/1st
Travel Bugs: Vietnam by Joseph R. Yogerst, 1993/1st
Bamboo Songs by Richard Yohnka, 1989/1st
First Recon - Second to None: A Marine Reconnaissance Battalion in Vietnam, 1967-68 by Paul R. Young, 1992/1st
Fields of Honor # 4: The Soldier's Medal by Donald E. Zlotnik, 1991/1st
Fields of Honor # 3: The Silver Star by Donald E. Zlotnik, 1991/1st
Russian language book
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- Moving Images
1692VI2043 - Live Free or Die (VHS)
1692VI2044 - Through the Wire (VHS)
1692VI2045 - Centre College - Vietnam 101 (VHS)
1692VI2046 - Vietnam: The Next Generation (VHS)
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- Serials
American Philatelist: 1997: December;
Conde Nast Traveler: 2005: April;
Destination: Vietnam: 1994: November/December; 1995: January/February, March/April, May/June, July/August, September/October, November/December; 1996: January/February, March/April, May/June, July/August, September/October, November/December; 1997: January/February, March/April;
Focus on Asian Studies: 1983: Fall (Vietnam: A Teacher's Guide);
National Geographic: 1985: May; 2004: May;
The Quarterly Journal of Military History: 1989: Winter;
Vietnam: 1989: Spring; 1992: December; 1993: April, June (2 copies), August, December; 1994: April;
The Vietnam Business Journal: 1996: June;
Vietnam Economic Times: 1996: May;
Vietnam & Tomorrow: 1994: Winter;
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CD - United States Army Vietnam Combat Art Program presentation by James Pollock 1692EM0632
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Correspondence
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Letter from MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History, 15 May 1990
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Letter from Melvin Small, Professor at Wayne State University, 23 May 1993
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Scholarly papers
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"Hole Huntin': Techniques to Detect, Neutralize and Destroy Enemy Tunnels, Vietnam"
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"Tunnel Detection Problems in Vietnam" by Eugene E. Addor (July 1977)
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University of Kent at Canterbury Centre of South-East Asian Studies Occasional Paper No. 10: "The Quite American and the Ugly American: Western Literary Perspectives on Indo-China in a Decade of Transition 1950-1960" by Clive Christie (February 1989)
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"Transforming Hearts and Minds with the Literature of the Viet Nam War" by Larry R. Johannessen (2-4 December 1993)
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Typed bibliography of Vietnam-related books
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Viet Nam Generation Course Text Catalog: History & Cultural Criticism, Winter 1993
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Viet Nam Generation Course Text Catalog: Fiction & Poetry, Winter 1993
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Vietnam War Literature, A Catalogue
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Vietnam War Literature, A Supplement by Ken Lopez, Bookseller
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Vietnam War, The Sixties by Ken Lopez, Bookseller
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Vietnam War: The Sixties, a Catalogue by Ken Lopez, Bookseller (2 copies)
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Chicago Book Festival, October 2003 (2 copies)
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Miscellaneous Materials
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Images from the Poems of War: Knife Drawings by Michael Hecht, July 15 - October 19, 2002
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"Woodstock Nation" theater program
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Newspaper clipping: "A Calm View of Vietnam After the War" by David Chanoff
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"Celebration of Patriotism and Courage: Dedication of the Vietnam Women's Memorial", 10-12 November 1993
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Post Card 'Anatoli A Sokolov, Ph. D.
- Perma Link
- https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=16920000000
- Citation
- Sandra Marie Wittman Collection (1692) Finding Aid, Sandra Marie Wittman Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=16920000000, Accessed 08 Feb 2026.
- Pub Credit Line
- 16920000000, Sandra Marie Wittman Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University
- Added: 16 Nov 2005 [Updated: 03 Oct 2025]
Vietnam Center & Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive
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