The Girl In The Picture

The Remarkable Story Of Vietnam's Most Famous Casualty

Plot

"From the most photographed war in the twentieth century, among the enduring images is one of a little girl screaming in pain and terror after being burned by napalm in an air attack ... Her photograph ... was seen around the world and helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War ... This book is the story of how that photograph came to be taken and what happened to Kim Phuc after it was taken ... Kim became a pawn in the Communist regime's propaganda campaign ... [her] recovery and rehabilitation was long and arduous, and after years of maipulation by Vietnamese officials, she escaped to Canada, where she now lives"--Jacket.