My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent Into Darkness

ISBN-13: 9780190056704 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 504 str.

Howard Jones

Opis

A trenchant and haunting account of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and its aftermath.

Recenzje

Howard Jones has written a powerful account of America's darkest hour in the Vietnam War. The victims' pain, the soldiers' guilt, and their leaders' culpability are all laid out for us to read in this gripping history. For anyone who wants to understand the tragedy of that war, this is essential reading.

O autorze

Howard Jones is University Research Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Alabama, where he taught for thirty-nine years. He is a New York Times-bestselling author of Mutiny on the Amistad (the basis for Steven Spielberg's film Amistad), as well as The Bay of Pigs, Death of a Generation, and To the Webster-Ashburton Treaty. He lives with his wife, Mary Ann, in Northport, Alabama.