Full name: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

Author: Frances FitzGerald Year: 1972 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Award winners, War/Military, Politics Culture: Asia Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads OpenLibrary Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780316159197 0316159190

This landmark work, based on Frances FitzGerald's own research and travels, 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 More... and monks -and reveals the country as seen through Vietnamese eyes. With a clarity and authority unrivaled by any book before it or since, Fire in the Lake shows how America utterly and tragically misinterpreted the realities of Vietnam. Similar books: America's Longest War by George C. Herring Vietnam by Stanley Karnow Embers of War by Fredrik Logevall They Marched Into Sunlight by David Maraniss Vietnam: The Necessary War by Michael Lind Shrapnel in the Heart by Laura Palmer A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990 by Marilyn Young Dereliction of Duty by H. R. McMaster The tunnels of Cu Chi by Tom Mangold Four Hours in My Lai by Michael Bilton Hell In A Very Small Place by Bernard B. Fall Patriots by Christian G. Appy In Retrospect by Robert S. McNamara Street Without Joy by Bernard B. Fall The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam Small Wars, Faraway Places by Michael Burleigh The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer Postwar by Tony Judt The Proud Tower by Barbara W. Tuchman