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Book Reviews of Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
Fire in the Lake The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
Author: Frances Fitzgerald
ISBN-13: 9780316284233
ISBN-10: 0316284238
Publication Date: 8/1972
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Publisher: Little Brown Co (T)
Book Type: Hardcover
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An excellent and unusual analysis of the Vietnam war, looked at from a different point of view. The book posits that the underlying reason for America's failure in Vietnam was a misunderstanding of the Vietnamese culture. While I don't agree entirely with the author's premise, a host of other people did. Book won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bancroft Prize for History.