Beschreibung:
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.
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