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The Girl in the Picture: The Remarkable Story of Vietnam's Most Famous Casualty Paperback - 2001
by Chong, Denise
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- Title The Girl in the Picture: The Remarkable Story of Vietnam's Most Famous Casualty
- Author Chong, Denise
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Printing U
- Condition Used - Fine
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scribners, London
- Date 2001
- Bookseller's Inventory # 359257
- ISBN 9780743207034 / 0743207033
- Dewey Decimal Code 959.704
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Summary
On June 8, 1972, nine-year-old Kim Phuc, severely burned by napalm, ran from her blazing village in South Vietnam and into the eye of history. Her photograph-one of the most unforgettable images of the twentieth century-was seen around the world and helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War.This book is the story of how that photograph came to be-and the story of what happened to that girl after the camera shutter closed. Award-winning biographer Denise Chong's portrait of Kim Phuc-who eventually defected to Canada and is now a UNESCO spokesperson-is a rare look at the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese point-of-view and one of the only books to describe everyday life in the wake of this war and to probe its lingering effects on all its participants.