A Bright Shining Lie

About the Book

Presented in a distinctive khaki slipcase and covers bearing battlefield photographs, this is the definitive edition of A Bright Shining Lie. It contains 54 images – all full-pages or spreads – ranging from harrowing shots of aerial bombing raids and jungle warfare to propaganda posters and Vann family photographs. They deftly complement a text that combines history, biography and reportage. Neil Sheehan freely slips between fingertip analysis of critical military strategy, eye-level accounts of battle, backroom politics in Washington and the origins of colonial conflict in South East Asia, interspersed with the personal journey of John Vann. It is an autobiographical work, too: Sheehan was on the ground in Vietnam, even coming under fire and helping to carry bodies from the battlefield, and at the New York Times he published the leaked Pentagon Papers that transformed public opinion of the war. He writes of the carnage visited upon Vietnam’s civilian population with a taut, controlled anger.

About the Book

Presented in a distinctive khaki slipcase and covers bearing battlefield photographs, this is the definitive edition of A Bright Shining Lie. It contains 54 images – all full-pages or spreads – ranging from harrowing shots of aerial bombing raids and jungle warfare to propaganda posters and Vann family photographs. They deftly complement a text that combines history, biography and reportage. Neil Sheehan freely slips between fingertip analysis of critical military strategy, eye-level accounts of battle, backroom politics in Washington and the origins of colonial conflict in South East Asia, interspersed with the personal journey of John Vann. It is an autobiographical work, too: Sheehan was on the ground in Vietnam, even coming under fire and helping to carry bodies from the battlefield, and at the New York Times he published the leaked Pentagon Papers that transformed public opinion of the war. He writes of the carnage visited upon Vietnam’s civilian population with a taut, controlled anger.

About the Book

Presented in a distinctive khaki slipcase and covers bearing battlefield photographs, this is the definitive edition of A Bright Shining Lie. It contains 54 images – all full-pages or spreads – ranging from harrowing shots of aerial bombing raids and jungle warfare to propaganda posters and Vann family photographs. They deftly complement a text that combines history, biography and reportage. Neil Sheehan freely slips between fingertip analysis of critical military strategy, eye-level accounts of battle, backroom politics in Washington and the origins of colonial conflict in South East Asia, interspersed with the personal journey of John Vann. It is an autobiographical work, too: Sheehan was on the ground in Vietnam, even coming under fire and helping to carry bodies from the battlefield, and at the New York Times he published the leaked Pentagon Papers that transformed public opinion of the war. He writes of the carnage visited upon Vietnam’s civilian population with a taut, controlled anger.

About the Book

Presented in a distinctive khaki slipcase and covers bearing battlefield photographs, this is the definitive edition of A Bright Shining Lie. It contains 54 images – all full-pages or spreads – ranging from harrowing shots of aerial bombing raids and jungle warfare to propaganda posters and Vann family photographs. They deftly complement a text that combines history, biography and reportage. Neil Sheehan freely slips between fingertip analysis of critical military strategy, eye-level accounts of battle, backroom politics in Washington and the origins of colonial conflict in South East Asia, interspersed with the personal journey of John Vann. It is an autobiographical work, too: Sheehan was on the ground in Vietnam, even coming under fire and helping to carry bodies from the battlefield, and at the New York Times he published the leaked Pentagon Papers that transformed public opinion of the war. He writes of the carnage visited upon Vietnam’s civilian population with a taut, controlled anger.

About the Book

Presented in a distinctive khaki slipcase and covers bearing battlefield photographs, this is the definitive edition of A Bright Shining Lie. It contains 54 images – all full-pages or spreads – ranging from harrowing shots of aerial bombing raids and jungle warfare to propaganda posters and Vann family photographs. They deftly complement a text that combines history, biography and reportage. Neil Sheehan freely slips between fingertip analysis of critical military strategy, eye-level accounts of battle, backroom politics in Washington and the origins of colonial conflict in South East Asia, interspersed with the personal journey of John Vann. It is an autobiographical work, too: Sheehan was on the ground in Vietnam, even coming under fire and helping to carry bodies from the battlefield, and at the New York Times he published the leaked Pentagon Papers that transformed public opinion of the war. He writes of the carnage visited upon Vietnam’s civilian population with a taut, controlled anger.

About the Book

Presented in a distinctive khaki slipcase and covers bearing battlefield photographs, this is the definitive edition of A Bright Shining Lie. It contains 54 images – all full-pages or spreads – ranging from harrowing shots of aerial bombing raids and jungle warfare to propaganda posters and Vann family photographs. They deftly complement a text that combines history, biography and reportage. Neil Sheehan freely slips between fingertip analysis of critical military strategy, eye-level accounts of battle, backroom politics in Washington and the origins of colonial conflict in South East Asia, interspersed with the personal journey of John Vann. It is an autobiographical work, too: Sheehan was on the ground in Vietnam, even coming under fire and helping to carry bodies from the battlefield, and at the New York Times he published the leaked Pentagon Papers that transformed public opinion of the war. He writes of the carnage visited upon Vietnam’s civilian population with a taut, controlled anger.