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Author
Series
Great events of our times volume no. 3
Publisher
SamHar Press
Pub. Date
1973
Physical Desc
31 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the events leading to the massacre of the inhabitants of a Vietnamese village by an American platoon in 1968.
Author
Publisher
iUniverse
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xiv, 131 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Noto analyzes My Lai and Son Thang against the backdrop of a flawed military justice system and an arrogant and inept civilian and military leadership that failed to articulate a coherent military strategy to win the war. Noto shows that failure of leadership contributed to problems of command discipline, racial tension, drug abuse, and general disregard for military protocol. His study examines these issues and describes how ordinary American boys...
4) My Lai
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The words 'My Lai' are seared into our memories of the Vietnam War, but few know what really happened in the small Vietnamese village on March 16, 1968. Now, drawing on 400 hours of recently discovered audio recordings and new interviews with participants, eye witnesses, and investigators, the complete story can finally be told about one of the most shocking atrocities in modern times, and about lesser-known acts of remarkable courage.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxvi, 475 pages, 32 pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
6) My Lai
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"On the early morning of March 16, 1968, American soldiers from three platoons of Charlie Company, entered a group of hamlets located in the Son Tinh district of South Vietnam, located near the Demilitarized Zone and known as "Pinkville" because of the high level of Vietcong infiltration. The soldiers, many still teenagers who had been in the country for three months, were on a "search and destroy" mission. Three hours after the GIs entered the hamlets,...
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