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They Marched into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967 is a 2004 book written by David Maraniss. The book centers around the Battle of Ong Thanh and a protest at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2004 and won the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize that same year.
Individuals mentioned
Terry de la Mesa Allen, Jr., commander of 2nd Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, U.S. 1st Infantry Division, son of major general Terry de la Mesa Allen, killed in action in Vietnam on October 17, 1967
Lt. Clark Welch
Donald Holleder
Vo Minh Triet
Paul Soglin
Jack Schroder
Carl Woody Woodard
Peter Coyote
Dick Cheney
Lynne Cheney
Television documentary
The 2005 documentary film Two Days in October is based on the book and aired as part of the PBS series American Experience, winning a Peabody Award. In the UK, it was broadcast by BBC Four as How Vietnam Was Lost as part of the channel's Storyville series.
Editions
ISBN 0743217802; September 23, 2003, Simon & Schuster, 592 pages (Hardcover)
ISBN 0743261046; September 28, 2004, Simon & Schuster, 572 pages (Trade Paperback)
References
External links
The battle of Ong Thanh on YouTube
Interview with David Maraniss at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library
Presentation by Maraniss on They Marched Into Sunlight at the Wisconsin Historical Society, April 8, 2002, C-SPAN
Part one and Part two of interview with Maraniss on They Marched Into Sunlight, September 28 and November 16, 2003, C-SPAN