My Lai Massacre in American History and Memory

by Kendrick Oliver

Book Overview

On 16 March 1968, two US infantry companies entered a Vietnamese village and in the course of a single morning killed over 400 of its unarmed, unresisting inhabitants . . . This is the first book to examine the response of American society to the My Lai massacre and its ambiguous place in American national memory. Kendrick Oliver argues that the massacre revelations left many Americans untroubled. It was only when the soldiers most immediately responsible...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719068916
• ISBN13: 9780719068911
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"