A bright shining lie John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

250Sheehan's tragic biography of John Paul Vann is also a sweeping history of America's seduction, entrapment and disillusionment in Vietnam. Annotation. Sheehan's tragic biography of John Paul Vann is also a sweeping history of America's seduction, entrapment and disillusionment...

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Main Author: Sheehan, Neil (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York Vintage Books 1989, ©1988.
Edition:1st Vintage Books ed
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Table of Contents:
  • The funeral
  • Going to war
  • Antecedents to a confrontation
  • The Battle of Ap Bac
  • Taking on the system
  • Antecedents to the man
  • A second time around
  • John Vann stays.