Vietnam War Deserters and Draft Resisters in Canada
List of Selected Works
This list is limited to works of substance and length, most of them
theses or separately published books. The order within sections is
reverse chronological. The section “Key Works”
lists all general titles devoted to the topic and some specific
studies. These tend to offer a mixture of case study, narrative history,
and analysis (sociological, psychological, political). The section
“Related Works” offers a highly selective list of titles
that include treatment of the topic. The section “Personal
Accounts” lists nonfiction titles by individuals who lived the
experience. These and many other books, essays, articles, literary
works, archives, government publications, dissertations, films, and
sound recordings will appear with annotation in my forthcoming
bibliography. If you have detailed research needs, or want to know
where to begin, feel free to ask specific questions.
Cochran, Joshua D.
Beyond the water's edge: U.S. expatriates and the
Vietnam antiwar movement
Ames, Iowa : University of Iowa, 2014
/ Ph.D. — History
xiii, 228 leaves
John, Henry Richard Lawrence
Resisting the war in "little brother country" : Vietnam
War exiles, identity crisis and Canadianization
Vancouver : University of British Columbia, April 2013
/ M.A. — History
v, 60 leaves
Squires, Jessica
Building sanctuary : the movement to support Vietnam War
resisters in Canada, 1965-73
Vancouver : UBC Press, [2013]
xxi, 348 pages
Murphy, Aisling
Journeys to the "north country fair" : exploring the
American Vietnam War migration to Vancouver
Burnaby, B.C. : Simon Fraser University, summer 2010
/ M.A. — History
vi, 118 leaves
Jones, Joseph, 1947- / Olafson, Lori, 1961- (editors)
War resisters in retrospect : papers from the 2007
Our Way Home peace event and reunion
Ottawa : [s.n.], 2009
112 pages
Jones, Joseph, 1947-
Happenstance and Misquotation : Canadian immigration policy
1966-1974, the arrival of U.S. Vietnam War resisters, and
the views of Pierre Trudeau
Vancouver : Quarter Sheaf, 2008
80 pages
Roth, Matthew
Crossing borders: the Toronto Anti-Draft Programme and
the Canadian anti-Vietnam War movement
Waterloo, Ont. : University of Waterloo, October 2008
/ M.A. — History
v, 118 leaves
Jones, Joseph, 1947-
Contending statistics : the numbers for U.S. Vietnam War
resisters in Canada
Vancouver : Quarter Sheaf, 2005
74 pages
Churchill, David Stewart
When home became away : American expatriates and new social
movements in Toronto, 1965-1977
Chicago : University of Chicago, August 2001
/ Ph.D. — History
v, 423 pages
Hagan, John, 1946-
Northern passage : American Vietnam War resisters in Canada
Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2001
xiii, 269 pages
Kusch, Frank, 1959-
All American boys : draft dodgers in Canada from the Vietnam War
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001
xviii, 173, [1] pages
Dickerson, James
North to Canada : men and women against the Vietnam War
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1999
xviii, 199 pages
Mackie, Patricia
Vietnam-era draft dodgers and deserters : class, Canada, and collusion
Montreal : Concordia University, spring 1998
/ M.A. — History
57 leaves
Haig-Brown, Alan, 1941-
Hell no, we won't go : Vietnam draft resisters in Canada
Vancouver : Raincoast Books, 1996
xi, 222 pages
Surrey, David Sterling
Choice of conscience : Vietnam era military and
draft resisters in Canada
New York : Praeger, 1982
xi, 207 pages
Colhoun, Jack
War resisters in exile : the memoirs of Amex-Canada
pages 11-78 in:
Amex-Canada 6:2 / 47 (Nov-Dec 1977)
Kasinsky, Renée G., 1943-
Refugees from militarism : draft-age Americans in Canada
New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Books, c1976
[12], 301 pages, [1] leaf of plates
Christy, Jim, 1945- (editor)
The new refugees : American voices in Canada
Toronto : Peter Martin Associates Ltd., c1972
vii, 151 pages
Emerick, Kenneth Fred, 1925-
War resisters Canada : the world of the American
military-political refugees
Knox, Pa. : Knox, Pennsylvania Free Press, c1972
xii, 320 pages
Killmer, Richard L., 1942- / Lecky, Robert S.
/ Wiley, Debrah S.
They can't go home again : the story of America's
political refugees
Philadelphia : Pilgrim Press, c1971
118 pages
Williams, Roger Neville, 1943-
The new exiles : American war resisters in Canada
New York : Liveright, c1971
xiii, 401 pages
Epp, Frank H. (editor)
I would like to dodge the draft-dodgers* but
... [*including deserters]
Waterloo ; Winnipeg : Conrad Press, c1970
95 pages
Glatz, Paul Benedikt, 1978-
Vietnam’s prodigal heroes: American deserters, international protest,
European exile, and amnesty
Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, 2021
xlviii, 363 pages
Sweet, Matthew, 1969-
Operation Chaos : the Vietnam deserters who fought
the CIA, the brainwashers, and themselves
New York : Henry Holt, 2018
xvii, 365 pages
Jones, Joseph, 1947-
Simulacrum of refuge : a history of Canada as
destination for U.S. Iraq War deserters
Vancouver : Quarter Sheaf, 2017
208 pages
Rodgers, Kathleen, 1974-
Welcome to Resisterville :
American dissidents in British Columbia
Vancouver : UBC Press, 2014
xix, 219 pages
Driscoll, Shawn C.
In through the out door : Vietnam pardon and amnesty
programs under presidents Ford and Carter
Worcester MA : Worcester State University, 2013
/ M.A. — History
57 leaves
Weaver, Sharon Ann
Making place on the Canadian periphery: back-to-the-land on
the Gulf Islands and Cape Breton
Guelph, Ontario : University of Guelph, 2013
/ Ph.D. — History
pages
Apostol, Mara Alexandra
Speaking truth to power : how the United Church Observer
and the Canadian Mennonite helped their denominations
navigate a new church-state dynamic during the Vietnam War
Hamilton, Ont. : McMaster Divinity College, 2010
/ M.A. — Christian Studies
xi, 141 leaves
Scott, Holly
Doves of a different feather : Mennonites and the antiwar
movement during Vietnam
Harrisburg, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, 2006
/ M.A. — American Studies
iv, 77 leaves
Rudy Plaxton, Sharon
To reconcile a nation : Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and
the question of amnesty 1974-1980
Kingston, Ont. : Queen's University, December 1995
/ Ph.D. — History
xxiii, 316 pages
Tollefson, James W., 1950-
The strength not to fight : an oral history of
conscientious objectors of the Vietnam War
Boston : Little, Brown, c1993
vi, 248 pages
Gottlieb, Sherry Gershon
Hell no, we won't go! : resisting the draft
during the Vietnam War
New York : Viking, 1991
xxvi, 274 pages
MacPherson, Myra
Long time passing : Vietnam and the haunted generation
Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1984
viii, 663 pages
Miller, Melissa / Shenk, Phil M.
The path of most resistance : stories of Mennonite conscientious
objectors who did not cooperate with the Vietnam War draft
Scottdale, Pa. : Herald Press, 1982
239 pages
Kostash, Myrna, 1944-
Long way from home : the story of the sixties generation
in Canada
Toronto : James Lorimer, 1980
xxxvii, 300 pages, [14] pages of plates : ill.
Baskir, Lawrence M. / Strauss, William A.
Chance and circumstance : the draft, the war,
and the Vietnam generation
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1978
xix, 312 pages
Baskir, Lawrence M. / Strauss, William A.
Reconciliation after Vietnam : a program of relief for
Vietnam era draft and military offenders
Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, c1977
xiv, 150 pages
Monke, Lowell
A report on amnesty
Newton, Kansas : Commission on Home Ministries, General Conference
Mennonite Church, c1975
100 pages
Polner, Murray, 1928- ed.
When can I come home? : a debate on amnesty for exiles,
antiwar prisoners, and others
Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Books, Doubleday, 1972
267 pages
Hayes, Thomas Lee, 1932-
American deserters in Sweden : the men and their challenge
New York : Association Press, c1971
192 pages
Satin, Mark, 1946-
Come, kind world
New York : Bombardier Books, an imprint of Post Hill Press
... forthcoming ... 2023 ...
Knight, Dee, 1946-
My whirlwind lives: a political memoir & manifesto
Toronto: Guernica World Editions, 2022
x, 195 pages
Note: previous versions in 2018 and 2019
Lemm, Richard, 1946-
Imagined truths : myths from a draft-dodging poet
New Westminster, BC : Tidewater Press, 2021
256 pages
Grady, Patrick
A Yankee-Canuck looks back : one damn thing after another
[United States?] : Global Economics, 2020
vii, 462 pages
Burt, Ellen, 1948-
What forever feels like : a memoir of Johnsons Landing
[New Denver, BC : Maa Press], c2018
xi, 207 pages
Glass, Allan, 1947-
Losing my country, keeping my soul
Victoria, BC : Friesen Press, 2018
320 pages
Klein, Michael C., 1938-
Dissident doctor : catching babies and changing the status quo
Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & McIntyre, c2018
xv, 288 pages
Glazner, Joseph Mark
Life after America : A memoir about the wild and crazy 1960s
Toronto : Glazner, 2017
224 pages
Henley, Thom, 1948-
Raven Walks Around the World : life of a wandering activist
Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing, c2017
272 pages
Proctor, Bruce Stevens
The Sweden file : memoir of an American expatriate
Washington DC : Westphalia Press, c2015
238 pages
Note: 2nd ed. 2019
Dix, Steve, 1946-
Finding honor : memoir of a Vietnam War resister
Bloomington, IN : Balboa Press, a division of Hay House, 2014
xii, 367 pages
Glass, Allan, 1947-
Deserting to Canada, living underground
Rakuten Kobo, c2012
233 pages (68 K words)
Frutkin, Mark, 1948-
Erratic north : a Vietnam draft resister's life
in the Canadian bush
Toronto : Dundurn Press, c2008
236, [4] pages
Ziegler, Robert
The draft dodger dues : a banquet of crow : an autobiography
Victoria, B.C. : Trafford, c2006
[-2], 425, [5] pages
Perrin, Dick, 1948-
G.I. resister : the story of how one American soldier
and his family fought the war in Vietnam
Victoria, B.C. : Trafford, c2001
[14], 167 pages, [6] pages of plates : ill.
Todd, Jack, 1946-
Desertion : in the time of Vietnam
[U.S. edition]
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2001
[8], 293 pages
Todd, Jack, 1946-
The taste of metal : a deserter's story
[Canadian edition]
Toronto : HarperFlamingo Canada, c2001
xiii, 253 pages
Fetherling, Douglas
Travels by night : a memoir of the sixties
Toronto : Lester Publishing, c1994
255 pages
Trimm, Steve
Walking wounded : men's lives during and since
the Vietnam War
Norwood, N.J. : Ablex Publishing Corporation, c1993
xx, 204 pages
(Frontiers in psychotherapy series)
Simons, Donald Laird, 1945-
I refuse : memories of a Vietnam War objector
Trenton, N.J. : Broken Rifle Press, c1992
184 pages
Moore, Richard, 1947-
Richard : portrait of a Vietnam War resister
San Francisco : R. Moore, c1987
[4], 5, 5, 6, [2], 4, 5, 3, [6] pages
York, Thomas, 1940-1988
And sleep in the woods : the story of one man's
spiritual quest
Toronto : Doubleday Canada ; Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1978
x, 221, [1] pages
Rockwell, Wilson, 1909-
We hold these truths ...
Caldwell, Idaho : Caxton Printers, 1976
260 pages
Morgan, Allen, 1946-
Dropping out in 3/4 time
New York : Seabury Press, c1972
152 pages
Suggestions for additions are welcome. For contact information see Joseph Jones.
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