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A Bright Shining Lie, John Paul Vann and the Americans in Vietnam

A Bright Shining Lie, John Paul Vann and the Americans in Vietnam

by Neil Sheehan

  • HISTORY
  • 1989
  • PAPER
  • 861 PAGES

A political history of the war as seen through the story of one of its soldiers, this prize-winning book is a hard-hitting expose on the failure of American foreign policy in Southeast Asia.  (VNM27, $19.95)


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