The Girl in the Picture
About this book
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 military operations
- aerial operations, american
- american
- american aerial operations
- biographies
- biography
- biography & autobiography
- children
- guerre du viet-nam, 1961-1975
- history
- kriegsopfer
- nonfiction
- photography
- vietnam, biography
- vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975
- vietnamkrieg
- vietnam war, 1961-1975
- vietnam war, 1961-1975, biography
- vietnam war, 1961-1975, children
- vietnam war (1961-1975) fast (ocolc)fst01431664
- vietnam war, 1961-1975, personal narratives