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Michelle Wildgen: IMG A Few Initial and Not-Comprehensive Meditations on Group Novels

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I am a sucker for a book about a group. What reminded me of this was Joanna Smith Rakoff's A Fortunate Age, her homage to Mary McCarthy's endlessly re-readable... Continue »

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 Cover

ISBN13: 9780394484471
ISBN10: 0394484479
Condition: Standard
Dustjacket: Standard
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Publisher Comments:

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

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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ISBN:
9780394484471
Subtitle:
(John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam )
Author:
Sheehan, Neil
Publisher:
Random House
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Soldiers
Subject:
Soldiers -- United States -- Biography.
Subject:
Vietnamese Conflict, 19
Copyright:
1988
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Edition Description:
Bibliography: p. 821-833.
Series Volume:
no. 1
Publication Date:
c1988
Binding:
HARDCOVER
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
861 p., 16 p. of plates
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