Four Hours in My Lai. This item is unavailable.Four Hours in My Lai

Early in the morning of 16 March 1968, a company of around 120 US infantrymen, later to be described as a "normal cross-section of American youth", entered a village on the central coastal plain of South Vietnam and killed hundreds of unarmed and unresisting women, old men and children. Later the same day, another party of US soldiers massacred nearly 100 more defenceless citizens in another village less than two miles away. Together, these two related actions became known as the My Lai Massacre. This is an account of this war crime. Throughout the US and Vietnam, the authors have tracked down and interviewed survivors of the massacre, perpetrators and bystanders, to describe the culture of a war which turned the young men of Charlie Company, after only three months in Vietnam, into the brutal killers of My Lai.

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.