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A Bright Shining Lie
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1988
- Pages
- Pages 860
Five helicopters down in a rice paddy at Ap Bac, and above them a lieutenant colonel in a spotter plane is raging into his radio at an allied army that outnumbers the enemy four to one and will not fight. John Paul Vann told the truth about Vietnam when almost no one in uniform would, handing the evidence to the young reporters in Saigon, Neil Sheehan among them.
Armies, like human beings, are not capable of what is not in them.
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