The Girl in the Picture
by:
Denise Chong (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140255539 (0140255532)
Publish date: October 12th 2000
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult,
War,
Politics,
Asia,
Canada
The photo of Kim Phuc running from her village horribly burned is one of those photos that just about everyone would have seen. It has been used widely by anti-war protestors and the communist government of Viet Nam in propaganda. Sadly what is lost in the iconic image is that Kim Phuc is a real per...
A satisfying and often gripping account of the life of Phan Thi Kim Phuc, whom you would recognize in Nick Ut's famous AP photo as the naked Vietnamese girl running down the road screaming after a misplaced napalm attack on her village. What is most striking about her life story is the set of coinci...
13 years ago
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