A reexamination of the 1968 My Lai massacre offers new perspective on the events and their relevance today in light of Abu Ghraib and other US Military scandals

• Acknowledgments
  


• Editor's Note
  


• Abbreviations
  


• Prologue: The My Lai Story
  


• Part I: Pinkville
  


• One
  


• Two
  


• Three
  


• Four
  


• Five
  


• Part II: Aftermath and Cover-Up
  


• Six
  


• Seven
  


• Eight
  


• Part III: My Lai on Trial
  


• Nine
  


• Ten
  


• Eleven
  


• Twelve
  


• Thirteen
  


• Epilogue: The My Lai Story Continues
  


• Notes
  


• Bibliography
  

Howard Jones is University Research Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Alabama, where he taught for thirty-nine years. He is a New York Times-bestselling author of Mutiny on the Amistad (the basis for Steven Spielberg's film Amistad), as well as The Bay of Pigs, Death of a Generation, and To the Webster-Ashburton Treaty. He lives with his wife, Mary Ann, in Northport, Alabama.