![]() ![]() ![]() About the Author Frances FitzGerald is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and a prize from the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. ![]() 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. Originally published in 1972, Fire in the Lake was the first history of Vietnam written by an American and won the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, and the National Book Award. (New York Times Book Review) This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGeralds 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 Americas ill-fated intervention - and reveals the country as seen through Vietnamese eyes. Book Synopsis Frances FitzGeralds 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. ![]()
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