Modern Library (Hardcover): A Bright Shining Lie : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Hardcover)

from dharper1

This book did a great job of revealing the dark side of the Vietnam War. It helped clarify the "myths" that we all grew up with. It also helped bring some prospective as to what is going on today in the Middle East. It was a long read, there were some parts that were tough to get through. You als...

from tmph

This is a supremely important book about the Vietnam war and the US. It is, however, huge, a little too huge. There are tangents in here that simply leave one wondering, did no one think to clean this up a little. That said, though, I made it thru and it is a devastating indictment about a countr...

from trek520

Walking through a book store one day I spotted this book and purchased it on the fly. Best that I can remember I purchased the book because: 1) It won a Pulitzer, 2) It won the National Book Award, 3) It was a National Bestseller; and 4) It's about the Vietnam War, a place and event I was told by...

from cwhouston

The history of the middle part of the Vietnam war using the life and experiences of John Vann, a senior military adviser, as a vehicle for the narrative. This does make the book more accessible but it also, necessarily, introduces material about Vann's personal life that I was not interested in. ...

from Schmerguls

In 1988 this book won the National Book awrd nonfiction prize and in 1989 it won the Pulitzer nonfiction prize. It is the 29th book I have read which won the Pulitzer nonfiction prize and the 27th I have read which won the National Book Award for nonfiction. It tells the story of Vann, who was no...