A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Sheehan NeilPaperback
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Sheehan NeilPaperback 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION. By the time he died in 1972, Vann had embraced the follies he once decried. One of the most…
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam Sheehan NeilPaperback
25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION. By the time he died in 1972, Vann had embraced the follies he once decried. One of the most acclaimed books of our time--the definitive Vietnam War expose.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an enterprise riddled with arrogance and self-deception, a charismatic soldier who put his life and career on the line in an attempt to convince his superiors that the war should be fought another way.
He died believing that the war had been won.In this magisterial book, a monument of history and biography that was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, a renowned journalist tells the story of John Vann--"the one irreplaceable American in Vietnam"--and of the tragedy
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