1) Fonti documentarie e pubblicazioni ufficiali
U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, Washington D.C., United States Government Printing Office
1964-1968, vol. III, Vietnam June-December 1965 (1996).
1964-1968, vol. IV, Vietnam 1966 (1998).
Mike Gravel, editor, The Pentagon Papers: the Defense Department history of United States decisionmaking on Vietnam, voll. II e IV, Boston, Beacon Press, 1971.
Relazioni Internazionali, a. XXX, Milano, Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, 1966.
Annuario di politica internazionale, vol. 23, anno 1966, Milano, Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale, 1968.
2) Memorialistica e biografie
James A. Bill, George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1997.
Kai Bird, The color of truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, brothers in arms: a biography, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Warren I. Cohen, Dean Rusk, Totowa, Cooper Square Publishers, 1980.
Robert Dallek, Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973, New York, Oxford University Press, 1998.
Robert S. McNamara, with Brian VanDeMark, In Retrospect: the Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, New York, Times Books, 1995.
Irwin and Debi Unger, LBJ: a life, New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
3) Monografie
Alberto Benzoni, a cura di, L'America nel Vietnam: dibattito alla Commissione d'inchiesta del Senato Americano, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1966.
H. W. Brands, The wages of globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the limits of american power, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995.
Robert Buzzanco, Masters of war: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Warren I. Cohen and Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, editors, Lyndon Johnson confronts the world: american foreign policy, 1963-1968, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Elizabeth Jane Errington and B.J.C. McKercher, edited by, The Vietnam War as history, New York, Praeger, 1990.
Bernard Fall, traduit de l'americain par Daniel Martin, Vietnam: derniers reflexions sur une guerre, Paris, Laffont, 1968.
Frances Fitzgerald, trad. di Settimio S. Caruso, Il lago in fiamme: storia della guerra in Vietnam, Torino, Einaudi, 1974.
J.William Fulbright, L'arroganza del potere, Milano, Feltrinelli Editore, 1967.
John Kenneth Galbraith, Come uscire dal Vietnam: una soluzione realistica del più grave problema del nostro tempo, Torino, Einaudi, 1968.
Lloyd C. Gardner, Pay any price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam, Chicago, Ivan R.Dee, 1995.
Giancarlo Giordano, La politica estera degli Stati Uniti: da Truman a Bush(1945-1992), Milano, Franco Angeli, 1999.
George C. Herring , America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975, New York, J.Wiley, 1979.
George C. Herring, LBJ and Vietnam: a different kind of war, Austin, University of Texas Press, 1994.
Gary R. Hess, Presidential Decisions for War: Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf, Baltimore and London, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Michael H. Hunt, Lyndon Johnson's war, America's Cold War Crusade in Vietnam, 1945-1968, New York, Hill & Wang, 1996.
David Kaiser, American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War, Cambridge, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2000.
Stanley Karnow, ed. italiana a cura di Piero Bairati, Storia della guerra del Vietnam, Milano, Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 2000.
George F. Kennan, a cura di Gianfranco Corsini, Possiamo coesistere? America e URSS dalla guerra del Vietnam alla crisi polacca, Roma, Editori Riuniti, 1982.
Henry A. Kissinger, traduzione di Giorgio Arduin, L'arte della diplomazia, Milano, Sperling Paperback, 2004.
Diane B. Kunz, ed., The Diplomacy of the Crucial Decade: American Foreign Relations During the 1960s, New York, Columbia University Press, 1994.
Fredrik Logevall, Choosingwar: the Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1999.
Fredrik Logevall, The origins of the Vietnam War, Harlow, Longman, 2001.
Peter Lowe, edited by, The Vietnam War, Houndmills, MacMillan, 1998.
Robert S. McNamara, James Blight and Robert Brigham, with Thomas Biersteker and Herbert Schandler, Argument Without End: in search of answers to the Vietnam tragedy, New York, Public Affairs, 1999.
Robert E. Osgood, America and the world from the Truman doctrine to Vietnam, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins Press, 1970.
Daniel S. Papp, Vietnam: The View from Moscow, Peking, Washington, Jefferson, McFarland & Company, 1981.
Ken Post, Revolution, socialism and nationalism in Vietnam, Vol. 5: Winning the war and losing the peace, Aldershot, Dartmouth, 1994.
Emilio Sarzi Amadé, Rapporto dal Vietnam, Torino, G. Einaudi, 1966.
Neil Sheehan[et al.], redazione di, I documenti del Pentagono, pubblicati da The New York Times in base all'analisi di Neil Sheehan, Milano, Garzanti, 1971.
Mario Sica, Marigold non fiorì: il contributo italiano alla pace in Vietnam, Firenze, Ponte alle grazie, 1991.
Marianna P. Sullivan, France's Vietnam policy: a study in french-american relations, Wesport, Greenwood Press, 1978.
Frank E.Vandiver, Shadows of Vietnam: Lyndon Johnson's wars, College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 1997.
Donald S. Zagoria, Vietnam triangle: Moskow, Peking, Hanoi, New York, Pegasus, 1968.
4) Articoli e saggi tratti da siti Internet
Peter Brush, ''The Story Behind the McNamara Line'', su http:// www.chss.montclair.edu
Fox Butterfield, ''The New Vietnam Scholarship'', su http://www.nytimes.com
Joseph R. Cerami , ''Presidential Decisionmaking and Vietnam: Lessons for Strategists'', su http://carlisle-www.army.mil
Harold P. Ford, ''Thoughts Engendered by Robert McNamara's In Retrospect'', su http://www.odci.gov
Michael Jay Friedman, ''Congress, the President, and the Battle of Ideas: Vietnam Policy, 1965-1969'', su http://etext.lib.virginia.edu
James G. Hershberg, Cold War International History Project, Working Paper No. 27, ''Who Murdered ''Marigold''?-New evidence on The Mysterous Failure of Poland's Secret Initiative To Start U.S.-North Vietnamese Peace Talks,1966'', su http://wwics.si.edu
Michael Lind, ''Back to Vietnam, and Its Myths'', su http://mtholyoke.edu
Jerzy Michalowski, prepared by Stefan Michalowski, ''Polish Secret Peace Initiatives in Vietnam'', su http://wwics.si.edu
Drew Middleton, ''Vietnam and the Military Mind'', su http://www.nytimes.com
Charles Mohr, ''History and Hindsight: Lessons From Vietnam'', su http://www.nytimes.com
Iver Peterson, ''The Long War in Vietnam: A History'', su http://www.nytimes.com
Jeffrey Record, ''Vietnam in Retrospect: Could We Have Won?'', su http://carlisle-www.army.mil
W. W. Rostow, ''The Case for the Vietnam War'', su http://carlisle-www.army.mil
David K. Shipler, ''Robert McNamara and the Ghosts of Vietnam'', su http://www.nytimes.com
Christopher P. Twomey, ''The McNamara Line and the Turning Point for Civilian Scientist-Advisors in American Defence Policy'', su http://web.mit.edu
William C. Westmoreland, ''As I Saw It And Now See It: An Analysis of America's Unique Experience in Vietnam'', su http.//members.aol.com