My Lai: An American Atrocity in the Vietnam War - William Thomas Allison - Google Books

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On March 16, 1968, American soldiers killed as many as five hundred Vietnamese men, women, and children in a village near the South China Sea. In My Lai William Thomas Allison explores and evaluates the significance of this horrific event. How could such a…