Fire in the Lake

Name: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
ISBN: 9780316159197

The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

Frances FitzGerald

2002·500 pages·Nonfiction

Historical Fiction History & Politics

colonialism culture clash doomed mission invasion poignant power and corruption

★ Pulitzer Prize (1973) · Winner National Book Award (1973) · Nominee

“a compassionate and penetrating account of the collision of two societies that remain untranslatable to one another.”
— New York Times Book Review

Frances FitzGerald's landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War. 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. 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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