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 book examines the response of American society to the massacre, and its ambiguous place in American national memory.

• 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"