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A Bright Shining Lie audiobook

  • By: Neil Sheehan
  • Narrator: Robertson Dean
  • Category: History, Military, Vietnam War
  • Length: 1 hours 7 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2009
  • Language: English
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A Bright Shining Lie Audiobook Summary

One of the most acclaimed books of our time—the definitive Vietnam War exposé and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

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 that the war should be fought another way. By the time he died in 1972, Vann had embraced the follies he once decried. He died believing that the war had been won.

In this magisterial book, a monument of history and biography that was awarded the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction, a renowned journalist tells the story of John Vann“the one irreplaceable American in Vietnam”and of the tragedy that destroyed a country and squandered so much of America’s young manhood and resources.

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Narrator Robertson Dean
Length 1 hours 7 minutes
Author Neil Sheehan
Category
Publisher Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date May 09, 2024
ISBN 9780307578013

Subjects

The publisher of the A Bright Shining Lie is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: history books for adults, vietnam war books, vietnam, vietnam war, war, military history books, nonfiction books, war books, military history, history books, american history books, pulitzer prize winning books, history, american history, world history, asia, military, biography, cold war, us history, politics, america, memoirs, the vietnam war, the pentagon papers, gifts for travelers, bird books of north america, gifts for men over 70, blood on the moon, infamy, a bright shining lie by neil sheehan, History, Military, Vietnam War, Biography & Autobiography, Military, History, Military, General The BISAC Subject Code is History, Military, Vietnam War

Additional info

The publisher of the A Bright Shining Lie is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780307578013.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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