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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann And America In Vietnam
Neil Sheehan

A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann And America In Vietnam

John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

Random House Inc (T) (Sep 12, 1988)
9780394484471
| Hardcover
861 pages | 168 x 239 mm | English
$ 24.95 | Value: $ 24.95
Dewey 959.7 SHE
LC Classification DS558 .S47 1988
LC Control No. 87043330

Genre

  • Non-Fiction

Subject

  • Soldiers
  • Soldiers/ United States/ Biography
  • United States
  • Vietnam War, 1961-1975/ United States
  • Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975

Plot

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. By the time he died in 1972, Vann had embraced the follies he once decried. He died believing that the war had been won.