Author: James S. Olson
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319242049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The massacre at My Lai on March 16, 1968 continues to haunt students of the Vietnam War as a moment that challenges notions of American virtue. James Olson and Randy Roberts have combed unpublished testimony and gather a collection of eyewitness accounts from those who were at My Lai and reports from those who investigated the incident and its cover-up.
My Lai
Author: James S. Olson
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319242049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The massacre at My Lai on March 16, 1968 continues to haunt students of the Vietnam War as a moment that challenges notions of American virtue. James Olson and Randy Roberts have combed unpublished testimony and gather a collection of eyewitness accounts from those who were at My Lai and reports from those who investigated the incident and its cover-up.
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319242049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The massacre at My Lai on March 16, 1968 continues to haunt students of the Vietnam War as a moment that challenges notions of American virtue. James Olson and Randy Roberts have combed unpublished testimony and gather a collection of eyewitness accounts from those who were at My Lai and reports from those who investigated the incident and its cover-up.
My Lai
Author: Howard Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195393600
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
A trenchant and haunting account of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and its aftermath.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195393600
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
A trenchant and haunting account of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and its aftermath.
Cover-Up
Author: Seymour M. Hersh
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0804151164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The Pulitzer Prize winner who first disclosed the massacre at My Lai 4 uncovers the full story of how those involved - from private to general - kept it secret. What he reveals is shocking - from the amorphous but very real "West Point Protective Association" to the fact that an extensive but closed investigation by the Army itself covered up another massacre by the same unit on the same morning.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0804151164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The Pulitzer Prize winner who first disclosed the massacre at My Lai 4 uncovers the full story of how those involved - from private to general - kept it secret. What he reveals is shocking - from the amorphous but very real "West Point Protective Association" to the fact that an extensive but closed investigation by the Army itself covered up another massacre by the same unit on the same morning.
Report of the Department of the Army Review of the Preliminary Investigations Into the My Lai Incident
Author: United States. Department of the Army
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1968
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Vol. 1 of the Peers Inquiry contains the narrative report of the investigation. The report, which is divided into twelve chapters and two annexes, includes the 29 March 1969 letter from Ronald L. Ridenhour reporting the incident to the Secretary of Defense, the mission statement of the Inquiry, findings and recommendations, maps, an extensive table of contents, and a 26-page glossary. Vol. 2 of the Peers Inquiry, entitled "Testimony," is further subdivided into a series of 32 "books," and is comprised of approximately 20,000 pages of testimony and summaries of testimony by over 350 witnesses.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1968
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Vol. 1 of the Peers Inquiry contains the narrative report of the investigation. The report, which is divided into twelve chapters and two annexes, includes the 29 March 1969 letter from Ronald L. Ridenhour reporting the incident to the Secretary of Defense, the mission statement of the Inquiry, findings and recommendations, maps, an extensive table of contents, and a 26-page glossary. Vol. 2 of the Peers Inquiry, entitled "Testimony," is further subdivided into a series of 32 "books," and is comprised of approximately 20,000 pages of testimony and summaries of testimony by over 350 witnesses.
Four Hours in My Lai
Author: Michael Bilton
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140177094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Uncovering the secrets behind the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, this is "a brutal, cautionary tale that serves as a painful reminder of the worst that can happen in war."—Chicago Tribune.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0140177094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Uncovering the secrets behind the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam, this is "a brutal, cautionary tale that serves as a painful reminder of the worst that can happen in war."—Chicago Tribune.
Kill Anything That Moves
Author: Nick Turse
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805086919
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Based on classified documents and interviews, argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam War were a pervasive and systematic part of the war.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0805086919
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Based on classified documents and interviews, argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam War were a pervasive and systematic part of the war.
After the Massacre
Author: Heonik Kwon
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520247970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Though a generation has passed since the massacre of civilians at My Lai, the legacy of this tragedy continues to reverberate throughout Vietnam and the rest of the world. This text considers how Vietnamese villagers have assimilated the catastrophe of these mass deaths into their everyday ritual lives.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520247970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Though a generation has passed since the massacre of civilians at My Lai, the legacy of this tragedy continues to reverberate throughout Vietnam and the rest of the world. This text considers how Vietnamese villagers have assimilated the catastrophe of these mass deaths into their everyday ritual lives.
My Lai 4
Author: Seymour M. Hersh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massacres
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
An account of the My Lai incident based on interviews with the men of Charlie Company and on a limited number of transcripts from the Army's investigation.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massacres
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
An account of the My Lai incident based on interviews with the men of Charlie Company and on a limited number of transcripts from the Army's investigation.
The My Lai Massacre in American History and Memory
Author: Kendrick Oliver
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719068911
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book examines the response of American society to the My Lai massacre and its ambiguous place in American national memory. The author argues that the massacre revelations left many Americans untroubled. It was only when the soldiers most immediately responsible came to be tried that opposition to the conflict grew, for these prosecutions were regarded by supporters of the war as evidence that the national leaders no longer had the will to do what was necessary to win.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719068911
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book examines the response of American society to the My Lai massacre and its ambiguous place in American national memory. The author argues that the massacre revelations left many Americans untroubled. It was only when the soldiers most immediately responsible came to be tried that opposition to the conflict grew, for these prosecutions were regarded by supporters of the war as evidence that the national leaders no longer had the will to do what was necessary to win.
Seymour Hersh
Author: Robert Miraldi
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1612344763
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Seymour Hersh has been the most important, famous, and controversial journalist in the United States for the last forty years. From his exposé of the My Lai massacre in 1969 to his revelations about torture at Abu Ghraib prison in 2004, Hersh has consistently captured the public imagination, spurred policymakers to reform, and drawn the ire of presidents. From the streets of Chicago to the newsrooms of the most powerful newspapers and magazines in the United States, Seymour Hersh tells the story of this Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. Robert Miraldi scrutinizes the scandals and n.
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1612344763
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
Seymour Hersh has been the most important, famous, and controversial journalist in the United States for the last forty years. From his exposé of the My Lai massacre in 1969 to his revelations about torture at Abu Ghraib prison in 2004, Hersh has consistently captured the public imagination, spurred policymakers to reform, and drawn the ire of presidents. From the streets of Chicago to the newsrooms of the most powerful newspapers and magazines in the United States, Seymour Hersh tells the story of this Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author. Robert Miraldi scrutinizes the scandals and n.