TY  - BOOK
AU  - SHEEHAN Neil
TI  - A bright shining lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
SN  - 0712666567 (pbk.):
PY  - 1998///
CY  - London
PB  - Pimlico
KW  - JOHN PAUL VANN
KW  - VIETNAM WAR
N2  - The story of the Vietnam War presented through the life of John Paul Vann who arrived in Vietnam in 1962 as a Lt Col, became disillusioned by the South Vietnamese atrocities and American arrogance and corruption, and resigned from the U.S. Army. He returned the vietnam as a civilian in the pacification programme. He became the first American civilian to hold a general's command and was killed in action in 1972
ER  -