Louise Barnett

Atrocity and American Military Justice in Southeast Asia (eBook, ePUB)

Trial by Army

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Using individual judicial proceedings held within war-time Southeast Asia, this book analyses how the American military legal system handled crimes against civilians and determines what these cases reveal about the way that war produces atrocity against civilians.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135172350
• Artikelnr.: 42510575

Autorenporträt

Louise Barnett is Professor of American Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA. Her research interests are military culture and history. She is the author of Touched by Fire, a biography of George Armstrong Custer, and Ungentlemanly Acts: The Army's Notorious Incest Trial.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: War in the Philippines 1. Mr. Root's Atrocity Trials
2. The Real Atrocity Trials Part 2: American Prosecution of Japanese War
Crimes in the Philippines 3. MacArthur and Yamashita Part 3: From Lanang to
Danang: The Philippine War Writ Large in Vietnam 4. Anatomy of an Atrocity:
Captain Vincent Hartmann and the Trial that Wasn't 5. My Lai: Crossing the
Line