My Lai
an American atrocity in the Vietnam War
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Author
Publication
2012 - Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland
Language
English
Word Count
42,500 words, Guess
Page Count
170 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivemylaiamericanatr0000alli
- ISBN-101421406446
- ISBN-101421406454
- ISBN-10142140706X
- ISBN-139781421406442
and 10 more
- ISBN-139781421406459
- ISBN-139781421407067
- Library of Congress Control Number2011053280
- OCLC Control Number769871249
- Better World BooksO8-DJL-780
- Better World Books9781421406442
- Better World Books9781421406459
- Better World Books9781421407067
- Better World BooksP7-EKD-023
- Open LibraryOL25157173M
Classifications
- DDC959.704/342
- LCCDS557.8.M9 A44 2012
- LCCDS557.8.M9A44 2012
Description
On March 16, 1968, American soldiers killed as many as five hundred Vietnamese men, women, and children in a village near the South China Sea. In this book the author explores and evaluates the significance of this horrific event. How could such a thing have happened? Who (or what) should be held accountable? How do we remember this atrocity and try to apply its lessons, if any? The My Lai massacre has fixed the attention of Americans of various political stripes for more than forty years. The breadth of writing on the massacre, from news reports to scholarly accounts, highlights the difficulty of establishing fact and motive in an incident during which confusion, prejudice, and self-preservation overwhelmed the troops. Son of a Marine veteran of the Vietnam War, and aware that the generation who lived through the incident is aging, the author seeks to ensure that our collective memory of this shameful episode does not fade. This book provides a clear narrative of this historic moment and offers suggestions for how to come to terms with its aftermath.
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