Fire in the lake : the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam / Frances Fitzgerald ; [with a new afterword by the author].

Author: FitzGerald, Frances, 1940-
Published: Boston : Little, Brown, 2002.
Edition: 1st Back Bay pbk. ed.
Physical Description: xii, 500 pages : map ; 21 cm

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Contents

I. The Vietnamese -- II. The Americans and the Saigon Government -- III. Conclusion.

Summary

This landmark work, based on Frances FitzGerald's own research and travels in Southeast Asia in the era of the Vietnam War, takes us inside Vietnam--into the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages and the corrupt crowded cities, into the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, Catholics and Buddhists, generals and monks--and reveals the country as if through Vietnamese eyes. With clarity and authority, Fire in the lake shows how America utterly and tragically misinterpreted the realities of Vietnam.

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ISBN

0316284238 (hc)
9780316284233 (hc)
0316159190 (pb)
9780316159197 (pb)

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"Back Bay books."

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 479-485) and index.

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