Book description
Shortly before 8 am on 16 March 1968, C Company, 1st Battalion, 20th
Regiment, 11th Brigade, Americal Division, on a search-and-destroy
mission in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, entered the hamlet of
My Lai. By noon more than 400 women, children and old men had been
systematically murdered.
To this day, the My Lai massacre has remained the most shocking
episode of the Vietnam War. Yet this infamous incident was not an
exception or aberration. Based on extensive research and unprecedented
access to US Army archives, and tracing the responsibility for these
atrocities all the way up to the White House and the Pentagon, War
Without Fronts reveals the true extent of war crimes committed
by American troops in Vietnam and how a war to win hearts and minds
soon became a war against civilians.
A historian and political scientist, Bernd Greiner is professor at
the University of Hamburg and directs the research programme on the
theory and history of violence at the Hamburg Institute of Social
Research.
