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My Lai: An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War Hardback - 2012

by William Thomas Allison

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Allison tells the story of a terrible moment in American history and explores how to deal with the aftermath.

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 My Lai William Thomas Allison 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?

My Lai 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--Allison seeks to ensure that our collective memory of this shameful episode does not fade.

Well written and accessible, Allison's 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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  • Title My Lai: An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War
  • Author William Thomas Allison
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 184
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publication date 2012-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9781421406442 / 1421406446
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Asian - General
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1968, Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Atrocities
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011053280
  • Dewey Decimal Code 959.704

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Citations

  • Choice, 03/01/2013, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 10/15/2012, Page 91

About the author

William Thomas Allison is a professor of history at Georgia Southern University. He is author of Military Justice in Vietnam: The Rule of Law in an American War.

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