A great white angel spreading her wings across the Moreno Valley: this is how one visitor described the memorial standing atop a windswept prominence in the San

This title presents a penetrating account of the cultural politics surrounding the memorialisation of the Vietnam War. It is a study of American attempts to com

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Military documents reveal decades of deceit about the Vietnam War and myths perpetuated by the mainstream media.