A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann And America in Vietnam
Trade paperbook edition in good condition. Some cover wear.
“Disaffection, once begun, acquires a momentum of its own.”
This passionate, epic account of the Vietnam War centers on Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann, whose story illuminates America’s failure and disillusionment in Southeast Asia. A field adviser to the army when US involvement was just beginning, he quickly became appalled at the corruption of the South 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.
Trade paperbook edition in good condition. Some cover wear.
“Disaffection, once begun, acquires a momentum of its own.”
This passionate, epic account of the Vietnam War centers on Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann, whose story illuminates America’s failure and disillusionment in Southeast Asia. A field adviser to the army when US involvement was just beginning, he quickly became appalled at the corruption of the South 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.
Trade paperbook edition in good condition. Some cover wear.
“Disaffection, once begun, acquires a momentum of its own.”
This passionate, epic account of the Vietnam War centers on Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann, whose story illuminates America’s failure and disillusionment in Southeast Asia. A field adviser to the army when US involvement was just beginning, he quickly became appalled at the corruption of the South 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.
ISBN 0-679-72414-1
Neil Sheehan
1988
Winner of the Pulitzer Pprize and National Book Award for Nonfiction