The Girl In The Picture
by Denise Chong (Simon and Schuster, £16.99)
THERE can be no more appalling or universal image of war than the photograph of the young girl running naked and screaming from a napalm attack on her village during the Vietnam War.
Her limply out-stretched, burned arms and the scream of pain captured on her lips haunted a generation and changed America's attitude towards its involvement in Vietnam.
The Girl In The Picture is the story of how that photograph came to be.
It also reveals the terrible truth of what happened to Kim Phuc after the American Army left.
Becoming a pawn in the Communist propaganda machine, her recovery from her burns was long and arduous.
Kim's moment of pure pain and terror, captured on celluloid nearly 30 years ago, has defined her life. But now living in Canada with her own family, Kim has shown an inspiring and uplifting strength of character to truly forgive those who inflicted this suffering upon her.
This is the spellbinding story of one casualty of war who beat the odds to survive.
John Phillpott
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