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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

by Neil Sheehan

Publication Year
1988
Language
English
Pages
950
File Size
5.8 MB
ISBN
9780679724148

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Summary

This passionate, epic account of the Vietnam War centres on Lt Col John Paul Vann, whose story illuminates America’s failures and disillusionment in SE Asia. A field adviser to the army when US involvement was just beginning, he quickly became appalled at the corruption of the S. Vietnamese regime, their incompetence in fighting the Communists and their brutal alienation of their own people. Finding his superiors too blinded by political lies to understand the war was being thrown away, he secretly briefed reporters on what was really happening. One of those reporters was Neil Sheehan.–Amazon (edited) Neil Sheehan was a Vietnam War correspondent for United Press International and the NY Times and won a number of awards for reporting. In 1971 he obtained the Pentagon Papers, which brought the Times the Pulitzer gold medal for meritorious public service. A Bright Shining Lie won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction. He lives in Washington DC. Maps The funeral Going to war Antecedents to a confrontation The Battle of Ap Bac Taking on the system Antecedents to the man A second time around John Vann stays Acknowledgments Interviews Documents Source Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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