The Girl in the Picture: The Story of Kim Phuc, the Photograph, and the Vietnam War
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Book Description
When Nick Ut photographed 9-year-old Kim Phuc running down a road, her body aflame with napalm, he turned a terrified girl into a living symbol of the Vietnam War's horror. Even after the war, the North Vietnamese government made the severely scarred Kim a reluctant poster girl for American atrocities. Although her parents, once relatively prosperous South Vietnamese peasants, were reduced to dire... More
Book Information
Publisher | Penguin Young Readers Group |
Binding | Paperback (6 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 400 |
ISBN-10 | 0140280219 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0140280210 |
Publication Date | 08/01/2001 |
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