Dispatches

by Michael Herr

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  FIRE IN THE LAKE

  The Vietnamese

  and the Americans in Vietnam

  by Frances FitzGerald

  This landmark book by one of our most acclaimed journalists was the first to portray the war not only from the American point of view but also through the eyes of the Vietnamese themselves. Meshing historical, political, and cultural analysis with a sure command of narrative, Fire in the Lake gives life to the most important and elusive figures in the conflict.

  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize,

  the National Book Award, and the Bancroft Prize

  History/Political Science/0-679-72394-3

  DISPATCHES

  by Michael Herr

  These pieces portray the frightening, grotesque, and absurd aspects of a senseless war as seen from the trenches.

  “What a passionate, compassionate, brilliant book this is. With uncanny precision it summons up the very essence of that war—its space diction, its surreal psychology, its bitter humor—the dope, the dexedrine, the body bags, the rot, all of it.… I believe it may be the best personal journal about war, any war, that any writer has ever accomplished.”

  —Robert Stone, Chicago Tribune

  Vintage International

  Military History/Vietnam/0-679-73525-9

  ONCE UPON A DISTANT WAR

  David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan,

  Peter Arnett—Young War Correspondents

  and Their Early Vietnam Battles

  by William Prochnau

  The American reporters who came to Vietnam in 1961 expected to write about an exotic little war in a country of tigers and elephants. What they found instead was a debacle in the making, in which American pilots flew missions illegally while their Vietnamese counterparts strafed the presidential palace. When they reported what they saw, they were pilloried for it at home. But they ended up making history simply by telling the truth. “Riveting … a mythic creation.”—Washington Post Book World

  History/Vietnam/0-679-77265-0

  A BRIGHT SHINING LIE

  John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

  by Neil Sheehan

  When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an enterprise riddled with arrogance and self-deception, a charismatic soldier who put his life and career on the line in an attempt to convince his superiors the war should be fought another way. By the time he died, Vann had embraced the follies he once decried. Sheehan’s tragic biography of John Paul Vann is also a sweeping history of America’s seduction, entrapment, and disillusionment in Vietnam.

  Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and

  the National Book Award

  History/Biography/0-679-72414-1

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