A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
by:
Neil Sheehan (author)
Sheehan's tragic biography of John Paul Vann is also a sweeping history of America's seduction, entrapment and disillusionment in Vietnam.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Sheehan's tragic biography of John Paul Vann is also a sweeping history of America's seduction, entrapment and disillusionment in Vietnam.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394484471 (0394484479)
Publish date: September 12th 1988
Publisher: Random House (NY)
Pages no: 880
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Writing,
History,
Cultural,
Journalism,
War,
Military,
Politics,
American History,
Asia,
Military History
This book is powerful, intelligent, poignant -- in listening to it I found myself more than once shaking within. The tragedy described in the brilliant narrative lives with us still.