SHEEHAN Neil <br/><br/>
A bright shining lie:  John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam / 
by Neil Sheehan 
 - New York:  Vintage,  1989 
 - 861 p. 
<br/><br/> Tells the story of Amerca's involvement in the Vietnam War through the life of Lt Col John Paul Vann who arived in the country in 1962 convinced the war should be fought another way. Ten years later he died in a helicopter crash having in the intervening period come to embrace the follies he had once decried. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0679724141 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>VIETNAM WAR