War Without Fronts: The USA in Vietnam - Hardcover

War without Fronts. The USA in Vietnam. Transl. from the German by Anne Wyburd .

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Buchbeschreibung Zustand: Gut. 518 S.; graph Darst.; 24 cm; fadengeh. Orig.-Pappband m. illustr. OUmschl. Gutes Ex. - Englisch. - Shortly before 8 a.m. on 16 March 1968, C Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Regiment, 11th Brigade, America! Division, on a search-and-destroy mission in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, entered the hamlet of My Lai (4). By noon every living being the troops could find was dead - 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 it is now becoming clear that this infamous incident was not an exception or aberration; on the contrary, as Bernd Greiner shows In harrowing detail, atrocities and massacres were commonplace. Based on extensive research and unprecedented access to US Army archives, War Without Fronts reveals the true extent of war crimes committed by American troops in Vietnam. In a series of case studies Greiner looks at the killing work of US Army death squads in the Northern Provinces in 1967; gives a detailed and disturbing account of the massacres at My Lai (4) and My Khe (4) on 16 March 1968; and portrays the war of attrition in the Southern Provinces between 1968 and 1971. En these chapters Greiner has created a microcosm of the Vietnam War that illustrates how the war to win hearts and minds soon became a war against civilians. Yet rather than pointing the finger at the 'grunts' fighting a dirty war on the ground, Greiner argues that the responsibility for these atrocities extends all the way up to the White House and the Pentagon. A political leadership frightened that the United States might lose its credibility and unable, against better advice, to stop the war; a military that devised a strategy of attrition based on 'body counts' as the only way to defeat an enemy skilled in unconventional warfare; officers who were badly trained, lacking in motivation and interested only in furthering their careers; soldiers who realised they were utterly disposable and sought to empower themselves through random killing - ail these factors led to an escalation of violence on the ground: the torture, rape, maiming and murder of countless Vietnamese civilians. (Verlagstext) ISBN 9781847920799 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 900. Artikel-Nr. 1128145

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