Tuesday, May 06, 2014

Twenty-three of the best war and history books of all time

The Telegraph tagged the twenty-three best war and history books of all time, including:
A Bright Shining Lie
Neil Sheehan (1988)

The life and death of an American colonel who went to Vietnam in the 1960s, didn’t like what he saw – cowardice and incompetence, rather than a wrong war – and so went on to tell the world’s press about it. A fascinating study, not just of the war but of a man.
Read about another entry on the list.

A Bright Shining Lie is one of Harold Evans's five best books about reporting.

--Marshal Zeringue