num_pages: 160
description: “His own lonely impunity is rank; it smells to heaven. If it is allowed to persist then we shall shamefully vindicate the ancient philosopher Anacharsis, who maintained that laws were like cobwebs; strong enough to detain only the weak, and too weak to hold the strong. In the name of innumerable victims known and unknown, it is time for justice to take a hand.”With the detention of Augusto Pinochet, and intense international pressure for the arrest of Slobodan Milosevic, the possibility of international law acting against tyrants around the world is emerging as a reality. Yet, as Christopher Hitchens demonstrates in this compact, incendiary book, the West need not look far to find suitable candidates for the dock. The United States is home to an individual whose record of war crimes bears comparison with the worst dictators of recent history. Please stand, ex-Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, Henry A. Kissinger.Weighing the evidence with judicial care, and developing his case with scrupulous parsing of the written record, Hitchens takes the floor as prosecuting counsel. He investigates, in turn, Kissinger’s involvement in the war in Indochina, mass murder in Bangladesh, planned assassinations in Santiago, Nicosia and Washington, D.C., and genocide in East Timor. Drawing on first-hand testimony, previously unpublished documentation, and broad sweeps through material released under the Freedom of Information Act, he mounts a devastating indictment of a man whose ambition and ruthlessness have directly resulted in both individual murders and widespread, indiscriminate slaughter.
language: English
title: The Trial of Henry Kissinger
titlecomplete: The Trial of Henry Kissinger
characters: Ronald Reagan, J. Edgar Hoover, Saddam Hussein, Dimitrios Ioannidis, Augusto Pinochet, Slobodan Milošević, Gerald Ford, Manuel Contreras, Alfredo Stroessner, James Callaghan, Seymour Hersh, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Otto von Bismarck, Geoffrey Robertson, Suharto, Martin Amis, Orlando Letelier, Mao Zedong, Anacharsis, Christopher Hitchens, Roberto Viaux, Lyndon B. Johnson, Michael Korda, Tennessee Williams, Harold Evans, Leonid Brezhnev, Indira Gandhi, Joseph Heller, Thomas Karamessines, Thomas Pappas, Yahya Khan, Tina Brown, Jorge Rafael Videla, Douglas MacArthur, Walter Isaacson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, J. William Fulbright, Zhou Enlai, Norman Podhoretz, Oliver North, Elias P. Demetracopoulos, H.R. Haldeman, Aung San Suu Kyi, Amy Goodman, Philip Habib, David Horowitz, Josip Broz Tito, Makarios III, Baltasar Garzón, John N. Mitchell, René Schneider, Daniel Ellsberg, Allan Nairn, Salvador Allende, Harry S. Truman, Saul Landau, Jimmy Carter, Joseph Bonanno, Margaret Thatcher, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Henry Kissinger, Charles de Gaulle, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Richard Nixon, W. Averell Harriman
genres: American History, Politics, Essays, War, Nonfiction, Journalism, History, Audiobook, Biography, American
ratings_count: 3891
places: Mekong Delta, Florida, Brussels, Athens, Santiago, Bangkok, Key Biscayne, Florida, Viña del Mar, Jakarta, Washington, D.C., Goa, Hanoi, Cappoquin, Bethesda, Maryland, Beijing, Nanjing, Manhattan, New York City, New York, San Francisco, California, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Paris, Nicosia, Kien Hoa, Suez Canal, Dhaka, Bến Tre, Painesville, Ohio, Dili, Koh Tang, Langley, Virginia, Phnom Penh, Lisbon, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, Camp David, Maryland, My Lai, Saigon, Nakhon Phanom, Nuremberg
publisher: Verso