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In November 1969, in the midst of growing protests against the Vietnam War, news began to spread that American soldiers had slaughtered over 500 Vietnamese civilians-most of whom were elderly residents, women, or children-in a place called My Lai. Military authorities attempted to suppress, dismiss, or downplay news of the massacre, but some of those who had been there and refused to participate in the slaughter began to talk about what they had seen. Internal investigations commenced, and the official line was that the villagers had been killed by artillery and gunship fire rather than by small-arms. But that line soon began to fray. Attention shifted toward a young lieutenant in Charlie Company who admitted he had gunned down unarmed Vietnamese but insisted that he had acted upon orders from above. After a journalistic exposé of the cover-up along with photographs of the carnage incited national outrage, congressional and U.S. Army inquiries were undertaken. A military court charged Second Lieutenant William Calley and nearly 30 other officers with war crimes, but in the wake of the court martial and the months-long trial, Calley alone was convicted of premeditated murder. The sentence polarized American sentiment and immediately became politicized. Many felt it was unfair; some felt it was just; most saw Calley as a scapegoat. The controversy continues nearly half a century later.
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 opposition to the Vietnam War by undermining any pretense of American moral superiority. Compelling, comprehensive, and sobering, Howard Jones' My Lai chronicles how the strategic failures and competing objectives of American leaders resulted in one of the most devastating tragedies of the Vietnam War.
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Autor des Buches: jones, jone, len howard, hirsch william, seymour hersh, lawrence, monroe, lais, william calley
Titel des Buches: 1968, vietnam history, lai, political psychology, into the darkness, the legacy history
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