The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War

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Penguin, Aug 1, 2001 - History - 400 pages
"More than any other Vietnam book in recent years, The Girl in the Picture confronts us with the ceaseless, ever-compounding casualties of modern warfare." —The San Francisco Chronicle

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.
 

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
7
Section 3
35
Section 4
63
Section 5
89
Section 6
115
Section 7
139
Section 8
165
Section 11
221
Section 12
247
Section 13
273
Section 14
299
Section 15
327
Section 16
355
Section 17
367
Section 18
371

Section 9
190
Section 10
191

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About the author (2001)

Denise Chong is the author of The Concubine's Children (Viking and Penguin), a Book-of-the-Month Club selection. She is the editor of The Penguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women and lives in Ottawa, Ontario, with her husband and two children.

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