TY - BOOK AU - Sheehan,Neil TI - A bright Shining Lie: : John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam SN - 394484479 PY - 1988/// CY - New York PB - Random House KW - GUERRA DE VIETNAM KW - HISTORIA KW - BIOGRAFIAS KW - VIETNAM KW - ESTADOS UNIDOS N2 - This passionate and epic tale of the Vietnam War centers on Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann, whose story illuminates the failures and disappointments of the United States in Southeast Asia. A field adviser to the military when US involvement was just beginning, he was quickly dismayed by the corruption of the S. Vietnam regime, its incompetence in the struggle against communists, and its brutal alienation ER -