Tiếng Việt

• Từ triều đình Huế đến chiến khu Việt Bắc, Phạm Khắc Hoè, Nhà xuất bản Thuận Hoá 1987
• Tại sao Mỹ thua ở Việt Nam, Nguyễn Phú Đức, Nhà xuất bản Lao động 2009

Tiếng Anh

• Sergei Blagov, Honest Mistakes: The Life and Death of Trình Minh Thế, Nova Science Publishers, Inc, Huntington, New York, 2001
• Chapman, J. M. (2013). Cauldron of resistance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and 1950s southern Vietnam. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
• Borthwick, Mark (1998). Pacific Century: The Emergence of Modern Pacific Asia. Westview Press. ISBN 0-8133-3471-3. 
• Buttinger, Joseph (1967). Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled. Praeger Publishers. 
• Fall, Bernard B. (1963). The Two Viet-Nams. Praeger publishers. 
• Diem, Bui (1987). In the Jaws of History. Houghton Mifflin. 
• Gettleman, Marvin E. (1966). Vietnam: History, Documents, and Opinions on a Major World Crisis. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books. 
• Jacobs, Seth (2006). Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of America's War in Vietnam, 1950–1963. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-7425-4447-8. 
• Karnow, Stanley (1997). Vietnam: A History. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-670-84218-4. 
• Langguth, A. J. (2000). Our Vietnam: the war, 1954–1975. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-81202-9. 
• Maclear, Michael (1981). Vietnam:The Ten Thousand Day War. New York: Methuen Publishing. ISBN 0-423-00580-4. 
• Moyar, Mark (2006). Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954–1965. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-86911-0. 
• Olson, James S. (1996). Where the Domino Fell. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-08431-5. 
• Topmiller, Robert J. (2006). The Lotus Unleashed: The Buddhist Peace Movement in South Vietnam. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2260-0. 
• Tucker, Spencer C. (2000). Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social and Military History. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1-57607-040-9. 
• Warner, Denis (1964). The Last Confucian: Vietnam, South-East Asia, and the West. Sydney: Angus and Robertson. 
• J Hammer, Ellen (1954). The Struggle for Indochina. America: Stanford University Press. 
• J. Duncanson, Dennis (1968). Government and Revolution in Vietnam. England: Oxford University Press. 
• Nguyen Ngoc Bich và đồng nghiệp (1972). An Annotated Atlas of the Republic of Viet-Nam. Washington, D.C.: Embassy of Viet-Nam.  Bảo trì CS1: Định rõ "và đồng nghiệp" (link)
• Choinski, Walter Frank (1965). Country Study: Republic of Vietnam. Washington, DC: The Military Assistance Institute. 
• Miller, Edward (2013). Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam. Harvard University Press