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Fire in the Lake
- Author
- Frances FitzGerald
- Narrator
- Jeff Bottoms
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Publish Date
- 6 March 2018
- Run Time
- 22 hours 30 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and travels, takes us inside the history of Vietnam--the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages, the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, Catholics and Buddhists, generals and monks, the disruption created by French colonialism, and America's ill-fated intervention--and reveals the country as seen through Vietnamese eyes.
Originally published in 1972, FIRE IN THE LAKE was the first history of Vietnam written by an American, and subsequently won the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the National Book Award. With a clarity and insight unrivaled by any author before it or since, Frances FitzGerald illustrates how America utterly and tragically misinterpreted the realities of Vietnam.
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Details
- Author
- Frances FitzGerald
- Narrator
- Jeff Bottoms
- Duration
- 22 hours 30 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 March 2018
- ISBN
- 9781549141249
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Genre
- Asian history, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Asian history, Colonialism and imperialism, Politics and government, Politics and government
Synopsis
Frances FitzGerald's landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War, "A compassionate and penetrating account of the collision of two societies that remain untranslatable to one another." (New York Times Book Review)This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and travels, takes us inside the history of Vietnam--the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages, the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, Catholics and Buddhists, generals and monks, the disruption created by French colonialism, and America's ill-fated intervention--and reveals the country as seen through Vietnamese eyes. Originally published in 1972, FIRE IN THE LAKE was the first history of Vietnam written by an American, and subsequently won the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the National Book Award. With a clarity and insight unrivaled by any author before it or since, Frances FitzGerald illustrates how America utterly and tragically misinterpreted the realities of Vietnam.
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