They Marched Into Sunlight

They Marched Into Sunlight
Second edition cover
Author	David Maraniss
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Vietnam, War, Historical Nonfiction
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Publication date	September 28, 2004
Media type	Hardcover and Trade Paperback
Pages	572
ISBN	0-7432-6104-6
OCLC	57225083

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
Woody Woodard

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]

Both Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman have the rights for making a feature film version of Maraniss's book. Their production company Playtone is very interested in having Paul Greengrass (United 93, The Bourne Ultimatum) as director of the project besides re-writing J. Michael Straczynski's first draft. Universal Pictures was expecting to release the film in 2013.

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

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