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Synopsis
A groundbreaking investigation of the true extent of American war crimes during the American intervention in Vietnam.
Based on extensive research in U.S. Army archives not previously utilized by historians, War Without Frontiers reveals the true extent of atrocities and war crimes committed by U.S. troops in Vietnam. Massacres, such as the infamous incident at My Lai, were far from being exceptions or aberrations; on the contrary, as Greiner shows in harrowing detail, they were commonplace.
Yet, rather than placing the responsibility for war crimes solely with the “grunts” fighting a dirty war on the ground, he points the finger at the line of command reaching all the way up to the White House and the Pentagon.
A political leadership frightened for the superpower USA losing its credibility and unable 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, demotivated and interested only in furthering their careers; and finally, soldiers who realized that they were utterly disposable and who sought to empower themselves through random killing.
All these factors led to an escalation of violence on the ground: the torture, rape, maiming and murder of countless Vietnamese civilians.
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About the Author
Bernd Greiner directs research into the theory and history of violence at the Hamburg Institute of Social Research.
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"This is far more than an account of a historical event... War Without Fronts has far wider implications" -- Jonathan Mirsky * Literary Review * "Professor Greiner, in this admirable translation by Anne Wyburd and Victoria Fern, scrupulously argued and carefully referenced, explains the failure of what is now known as the moral component of warfare, and therefore exactly how it was that the US lost" -- Allan Mallinson * The Times * "A well-documented essay...an astonishing final section" -- Richard Gott * New Statesman * "This comprehensive indictment of the Vietnam war was published first in Germany in 2007. One wonders how long it will be before a similar book can be written about the dehumanising effect on a new generation of American soldiers of the Iraq war, also fought against a guerrilla enemy in a foreign land" -- Conor O'Clery * Irish Times * "Impressive study." * Contemporary Review *
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- PublisherBodley Head
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1847920799
- ISBN 13 9781847920799
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages528
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