My Lai 4

Seymour Hersh · first published 1970 · ISBN 9780394714509

In 1968, U.S. soldiers killed over 500 civilians in the village of My Lai 4 in Vietnam. The Army covered it up. Hersh's dogged reporting, conducted while journalists and officials wanted the story buried, reconstructed what happened that morning through interviews with soldiers, officers, survivors, and villagers. He pieced together the command structure that enabled the massacre and then concealed it.