Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
by Frances Fitzgerald
Book Description
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 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.
About the Author
Frances FitzGerald is the author of several bestselling books, and has contributed to the Atlantic, The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The Village Voice, Vogue, and other publications. She lives in New York.
Keywords: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam, Books, Frances Fitzgerald, History: World, History - Military / War, History, Military - Vietnam War, Asia - Southeast Asia
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