I'm assuming that Ken Burn's series on Vietnam will drive further interest in Sheehan's story, and that will be good as it I skimmed this book again over the last couple of weeks having plowed my way through it over some months in 1989, me a 30 year old twit in grad school in New Hampshire, co-reading with my historian of war Dad in Wyoming.

Start by marking “A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam” as Want to Read:

After absorbing this book I'm mentally exhausted from the sheer size and scope of the information contained in it.
I enjoyed the political history of the war and the more biographical sections of the book. Vietnam is complicated.

I recommend it to anyone interested in American military history, specifically the Vietnam war, but warn you that you are in for a long, difficult read. He persuaded Vann to give him a pair of the new lightweight Armalite rifles, officially designated the AR-15 and later to be designated the M-16 when the Armalite was adopted as the standard U.S. infantry rifle. I cannot fathom the time, commitment, and energy it must have taken to create a book of this magnitude and scope. The high velocity caused the small bullet to inflict ugly wounds when it did not kill.) Best that I can remember I purchased the book because: 1) It won a Pulitzer, 2) It won the National Book Award, 3) It was a National Bestseller; and 4) It's about the Vietnam War, a place and event I was told by the draft board that I could expect to visit (I didn't). Their power and influence over events were momentous, yet, in the end, ephemeral. The lynchpin of the book is John Paul Vann, a fascintating, complex man, who may have allowed the U.S. to win the war in Vietnam, had the U.S. listened to him at the time.

I'll always hold Mr.Sheehan in the highest regard for the way he crafted this impressive work.

Then such assertions possess a crystal clarity the finest diamonds cannot match. It is a humbling and relevant tome that describes the catastrophic failures of leadership and American hubris that led to the inevitable disaster in Vietnam.

With Bill Paxton, Bo Eason, William L. Mansey, Karina Logue. Cao’s troops often alienated the local populace by acts of thievery and brutality.

He bombed the Viet Cong by tossing hand grenades out the windows.”“Lansdale was a victim in Vietnam of his success in the Phillipines. He views being sent to Vietnam as part of the US military advisory force a stepping stone to promotion.

But, overall, the book was way to detail-oriented and focused on military conflicts and strategy for my taste. Both were military men sent to Asia as advisers to help achieve global objectives—in one case, defeating the Japanese in World War II; in the other, stopping the spread of communism.

The book is painful to read, not only because one knows how everything will end, both for the war, and for Vann himself, but also because one finds oneself immersed in a person for whom one feels empathy, yet simultaneously finds morally repugnant.This book is an extensive coverage of the war in Vietnam and includes many of the details of covert actions that were withheld from the American public at the time they were occurring.
I was reluctant to start this one, at least now, since I had only read Stanley Karnow's massive "Vietnam: A History" less than a year ago, and didn't feel like spending so much time on the same topic.

I will be using prompt #1 & prompt #3. Will report back when I know more...I picked this book up in a guest cottage on a New Hampshire vacation and could not put it down.

This is one of the many books written about it. The book began at the funeral of John Paul Vann, a former Army lieutenant colonel who served in both Korea and Vietnam before his retirement in 1963. I found the entire book disturbing because everything changes and nothing changes. I remember that this was the human story version of a work I greatly admired and emulated in its model of content analysis: Griffin and Marciano's Teaching the Vietnam War (Nominally a biography of John Paul Vann--a soldier and civilian who was one of the first American Advisers in Vietnam at the beginning of American intervention and remained involved in the conflict until his death in 1972--this is actually the most complete history of the Vietnam War that I have ever read. True story of Army man John Paul Vann, whose military success provided him the fulfillment he never found in his personal life. Napalm and torture prisons bridge the gap of immorality between Vietnam and the current wars; Vann thought we were better than that. )An articulate and heartbreaking analysis of America's war in Vietnam that is more relevant now than it has been for over a generation in light of the war in Iraq. Summaries True story of Army man John Paul Vann, whose military success provided him the fulfillment he never found in his personal life. If the peasants sympathized with the enemy, Vann attributed it to their political naïveté or to pragmatic necessity. It was complicated when Ho Chi Minh was citing the colonists' ideals from the American Revolutionary War seeking independence for his nation.


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