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020 _a0712666567 (pbk.):
_c12.50 UK
100 1 _aSHEEHAN Neil
245 0 _aA bright shining lie:
_bJohn Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
260 _aLondon:
_bPimlico,
_c1998
300 _a861p.
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.
650 _aJOHN PAUL VANN
650 _aVIETNAM WAR
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_sY
999 _c42586
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