Execution Charles Horman by Hauser Thomas (4 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover. Stated first edition. Review copy with the slip and material laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo, nice copy of his first book, made into a movie THE MISSING.Inscribed.For Baba, fondly Tom.vvbdrm3/1.

A first edition, first printing published by Harcourt et al 1978. A near fine book in a near fine unclipped wrapper - a touch rubbed to the corners - two small nicks. American journalist Charles Horman was executed in Chile on September 19, 1973, in the violent aftermath of the U.S.-backed military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet. Horman was detained by Chilean soldiers and taken to the National Stadium in Santiago, which was used as a prison camp and execution centre. His body was discovered in a morgue a month later, having been shot to death and temporarily buried in a wall at the stadium. Horman's family, including his father and widow, faced resistance and a lack of co-operation from U.S. embassy officials during their search for answers. The case, dramatised in the film Missing (1982), suggested U.S. complicity in his death, a claim later supported by a 2014 Chilean court ruling that U.S. authorities had played a "fundamental" role. In 2016, two former Chilean intelligence officials were sentenced to prison for the murders of Horman and another American, Frank Teruggi.