On June 8, 1972, nine-year-old Kim Phuc, severely burned by napalm, ran from a misplaced air strike over her village in South Vietnam and into the eye of history. Her photograph one of the most unforgettable image of the twentieth century was seen around the world and helped turn public option 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 blink of the camera shutter. After years in rehabilitation, and a long battle to survive in a devastated and corrupt country, Kim Phuc defected to the West in 1992 and is now a UNESCO spokesperson.
The Girl in the Picture is at once a riveting personal story about a victim of war and of propaganda and a groundbreaking social history that offers a rare view of everyday life in Vietnam after the war.
