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

by Frances FitzGerald Narrated by Jeff Bottoms

Overview

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.

Editorial Reviews

Library Journal

Fitzgerald's Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning study of the Vietnam War remains essential reading 30 years after its initial publication. Fitzgerald's analysis differs from combat histories in that it presents the Vietnamese and Americans from a sociological point of view. This edition contains a new afterword in which Fitzgerald updates the story three decades after the American withdrawal. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Charles McGrath

This is the richest kind of contemporary history; it places political and military events in cultural perspective....She is superb at clarifying the differences between Vietnamese and American cultures....This is the best book on Vietnam so far. -- The New York Times Books of the Century

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170092284
Publisher:	Hachette Audio
Publication date:	03/06/2018
Edition description:	Unabridged

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