From the American Withdrawal to the Fall of the South (1972 - 1975)
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| Butler, David. The Fall of Saigon: Scenes from the Sudden End to a Long War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985. | |
| Dawson, Alan. 55 Days : The Fall of South Vietnam. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1977. | |
| Isaacs, Arnold. Without Honor : Defeat in Vietnam and Cambodia. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983. | |
| Snepp, Frank. Decent Interval. New York: Random House,
1977. Snepp was a senior CIA analyst in Saigon during the period from the American combat withdrawal to the fall of Saigon (1972-75). He relates the story of the CIA's and State Department's failure to understand that Saigon was going to fall, and a stunning indictment of the American abandonment those Vietnamese who had helped the CIA in the midst of the final US evacuation. |
