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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam - Neil Sheehan - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=zruOg5is6RYC&pg=PA312&dq=southern+viet+minh&hl=de&sa=X&ei=BO7_UZKDNoSNtAaY9YGwCg&ved=0CHYQ6AEwCQ
Outspoken, professional and fearless, Lt. Col. John Paul Vann went to Vietnam in 1962, full of confidence in America's might and right to prevail. He was soon appalled by the South Vietnamese troops' unwillingness to fight, by their random slaughter of…
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Searching for Calamity: The Life and Times of Calamity Jane - Linda Jucovy - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=QLOHsB3DXpoC&pg=PA3
“Who in the world would think that Calamity Jane would get to be such a famous person?” one of the pallbearers at her funeral asked an interviewer many years later. It seemed like a reasonable question. Who else has accomplished so little by conventional…