They Marched into Sunlight

2004 book by David Maraniss
0-7432-6104-6OCLC57225083

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,[1] 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 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, was based on this book, and produced as part of the PBS series American Experience during season 18.[2] It won a Peabody Award.[3] In the UK, it was also broadcast by BBC Four as How Vietnam was Lost, as part of the channel's Storyville series.[4]

Film adaptation

At one point, both Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman had the rights for making a feature film version of Maraniss's book. Their production company Playtone was very interested in having Paul Greengrass (United 93, The Bourne Ultimatum) direct the film.[citation needed]

Editions

  • ISBN 0743217802; September 23, 2003, Simon & Schuster, 592 pages (Hardcover)
  • ISBN 0743261046; September 28, 2004, Simon & Schuster, 572 pages (Trade Paperback)

References

  1. ^ "2004 Pulitzer Prizes". Pulitzer.org.
  2. ^ "American Experience | Two Days in October". PBS. October 17, 2005. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  3. ^ 65th Annual Peabody Awards, May 2006.
  4. ^ How Vietnam was Lost 2005 Archived 2010-12-01 at the Wayback Machine

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