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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In this raw, searing new narrative account, Howard Jones reopens the case of My Lai by examining individual accounts of both victims and soldiers through extensive archival and original research. Jones evokes the horror of the event itself, the attempt to suppress it, as well as the response to Calley's sentence and the seemingly unanswerable question of whether he had merely been following orders. My Lai also surveys how news of the slaughter intensified...
Author
Series
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Based on classified documents and interviews, a controversial history of the Vietnam War argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians were a pervasive and systematic part of the war.