Four Hours in My Lai - Hardcover

Michael Bilton; Kevin Sim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670842966 ISBN 13: 9780670842964

Publisher: Viking Penguin, 1992

Synopsis

A relentlessly powerful book--companion to the Emmy Award-winning television documentary, Four Hours to My Lai. By interviewing both American and Vietnamese survivors and analyzing an immense body of archival materials, the authors have unearthed the truth of what happened and compells us to look once more into a black hole in our history.

About this title

From the Author:

America honours My Lai Heroes 30 years on. It's in the book
Last March 7, 1998, America's military finally came to terms with My Lai and recognised the bravery of Hugh Thompson and Larry Colburn, the members of a helicopter crew who rescued unarmed civilians who were at My Lai in the middle of the massacre. As they did so they trained their machine guns on American troops and threatened to open fire if any more innocent people were killed. The story was first told in my book Four Hours in My Lai. As a direct result, Prof. David Egan, an expert in architecture at a university in South Carolina began a letter writing campaign to try and win some official recognition for the bravery of Thompson and Colburn. It took nearly six years, met with all kinds of resistence from The Pentagon and the Clinton White House, until by sheer force of numbers the Government and Top Brass had to give way. However...America has still only grasped a fraction of the reality of My Lai and more importantly the Vietnam War as a whole. We tried in this book to show what war can do to young men. We believe it is as relevent today as it was when we wrote it. Ten years ago we hadn't heard of massacres in Bosnia, Ruwanda, Sudan and Kosovo.

About the Author:

Michael Bilton is a veteran British investigative journalist who has worked for the London Sunday Times and Yorkshire Television, a documentary film company. His documetary film Four Hours in My Lai garnered an International Emmy Award for Best Documentary. Bilton has also taught journalism at universities in Great Britain, the United States, and Denmark. Kevin Sim is a British documentary filmmaker whose credits include Once Upon a Time in Iran, The Secret Life of the Berlin Wall, and Four Hours in My Lai, which won an International Emmy Award for Best Documentary.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Penguin
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0670842966
• ISBN 13: 9780670842964
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448