Fire in the Lake

A “compassionate and penetrating” landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War ( New York Times Book Review ). “Fitzgerald’s Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning study of the Vietnam War remains essential reading thirty years after its initial publication.” — Library Journal 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 an