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

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

Neil Sheehan

896 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced

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This passionate, epic account of the Vietnam War centres on Lt Col John Paul Vann, whose story illuminates America's failures & disillusionment in SE Asia. A field adviser to the army when US involvement was just beginning, he quickly became a...

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