Catalog Search Results
History Reference Center
Full-text articles to support research in history and genealogy and lesson plans to support student learning.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by a few bad apples. However, as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this pioneering investigation, violence against Vietnamese civilians was not at all exceptional. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of official orders to kill anything that moves....