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

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Fitzgerald, Frances. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780316284233.

This work, based on Frances FitzGeralds own research and travels in Southeast Asia in the era of the Vietnam War, takes us inside Vietnam - into the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages and the corrupt, crowded cities, into the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, Catholics and Buddhists, generals and monks - and reveals the country as if through Vietnamese eyes. Fire in the Lake shows how America utterly and tragically misinterpreted the realities of Vietnam.