A Bright Shining Lie

en Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 1998

Blunt, idealistic, patronising to the Vietnamese, Vann was haunted by a shameful secret - the fact that he was the illegitimate son of a 'white trash' prostitute. Gambling away his career, Vann left the army that he loved and returned to Vietnam as a civilian in the pacification programme.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780712666565
ISBN-10: 0712666567
Pagini: 896
Ilustrații: 16pp b&w halftones
Dimensiuni: 151 x 233 x 45 mm
Greutate: 0.86 kg
Ediția:New
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Neil Sheehan is the author of A Fiery Peace in a Cold War. He spent three years in Vietnam as a war correspondent for United Press International and The New York Times and won numerous awards for his reporting. In 1971 he obtained the Pentagon Papers, which brought The New York Times the Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for meritorious public service. His book A Bright Shining Lie won the National Book Award in 1988 and the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction in 1989. He died in 2021.

Recenzii

"If there is one book that captures the Vietnam war in the sheer Homeric scale of its passion and folly, this is it."--The New York Times Book Review

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