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The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth about U.S. War Crimes
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The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth about U.S. War Crimes Hardcover - 2008

by Deborah Nelson


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In 2005, Deborah Nelson joined forces with military historian Nick Turse to investigate an extraordinary archive: the largest compilation of records on Vietnam-era war crimes ever to surface. The declassified Army papers were erroneously released and have since been pulled from public circulation. Few civilians have seen the documents.

The files contain reports of more than 300 confirmed atrocities, and 500 other cases the Army either couldn't prove or didn't investigate. The archive has letters of complaint to generals and congressmen, as well as reports of Army interviews with hundreds of men who served. Far from being limited to a few bad actors or rogue units, atrocities occurred in every Army division that saw combat in Vietnam. Torture of detainees was routine; so was the random killing of farmers in fields and women and children in villages. Punishment for these acts was either nonexistent or absurdly light. In most cases, no one was prosecuted at all.

In The War Behind Me Deborah Nelson goes beyond the documents and talks with many of those who were involved, both accusers and accused, to uncover their stories and learn how they deal with one of the most awful secrets of the Vietnam War.

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  • Title The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth about U.S. War Crimes
  • Author Deborah Nelson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books (AZ), New York
  • Date 2008-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780465005277 / 0465005276
  • Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.55 x 6.32 x 1.1 in (24.26 x 16.05 x 2.79 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - United States, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Veterans - United
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008015814
  • Dewey Decimal Code 959.704

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Deborah Nelson is a Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist currently at the University of Maryland College of Journalism as the Carnegie Visiting Professor. A former president of Investigative Reporters and Editors, she serves on the board of the Fund for Investigative Journalism and as president of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. She lives in Takoma Park, Maryland.
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