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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
By Neil Sheehan
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Winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the 1988 National Book Award. Neil Sheehan's sixteen-year project, built around the life of Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, the early counter-insurgency advocate who came home from Vietnam to denounce the war he had once helped run.The definitive single-volume history of America in Vietnam, widely cited as the best account of how the United States talked itself into the conflict and then could not extract itself. Indispensable for anyone seri…
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Winner of the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the 1988 National Book Award. Neil Sheehan's sixteen-year project, built around the life of Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, the early counter-insurgency advocate who came home from Vietnam to denounce the war he had once helped run.
The definitive single-volume history of America in Vietnam, widely cited as the best account of how the United States talked itself into the conflict and then could not extract itself. Indispensable for anyone serious about the Vietnam War.
In English
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