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.
- ISBN10 067088040X
- ISBN13 9780670880409
- Publish Date August 2000
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 January 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Viking
- Edition American ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 373
- Language English