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100 | 1 | _aSHEEHAN Neil | |
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_aA bright shining lie: _bJohn Paul Vann and America in Vietnam |
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_aLondon: _bPimlico, _c1998 |
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520 | 3 | _aThe 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. | |
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650 | _aVIETNAM WAR | ||
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