The girl in the picture

Description:

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.

subjects: Aerial operations, American,  American Aerial operations,  Biography,  Biography & Autobiography,  Children,  History,  Nonfiction,  Photography,  Vietnam War, 1961-1975,  Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975,  Biographies,  Vietnam War (1961-1975) fast (OCoLC)fst01431664,  American,  Aerial Military operations,  Guerre du Viet-nam, 1961-1975,  Vietnamkrieg,  Kriegsopfer,  Vietnam war, 1961-1975, biography,  Vietnam, biography,  Vietnam war, 1961-1975, children,  Vietnam war, 1961-1975, personal narratives

People: Kim Phuc,  Kim Phúc,  Kim Phúc (1963-)

Places: Vietnam