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

1040 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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A Bright Shining Lie is Neil Sheehan’s Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Vietnam War told through lieutenant colonel John Paul Vann, with a new introduction by George Packer for The Folio Society. In A Bright Shining Lie, Neil Sheehan peels b...

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