A Bright shining lie / Sheehan, Neil

The story of Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, who went to Vietnam in 1962 and served as a civilian worker in the pacification program until his death in 1972.

A biography of Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, focusing on his military service in Vietnam where he served as an advisor to the Saigon regime in the early 1960s, and became an outspoken critic of the way the war was being waged, both by Saigon and the U.S. forces.