num_pages: 161
description: With the detention of Augusto Pinochet, and intense international pressure for the arrest of Slobodan Milosovic, the possibility of international law acting against tyrants around the world is emerging as a reality. In this incendiary book, Hitchens takes the floor as prosecuting counsel and mounts a devastating indictment of a man whose ambitions and ruthlessness have directly resulted in both individual murders and widespread, indiscriminate slaughter. He investigates and reveals Kissingers' involvement in: the deliberate mass killings of civilian populations in Indochina; the deliberate collusion in mass murder and assassination in Bangladesh; the personal suborning and planning of a murder, of a senior constitutional officer in a democratic nation that the USA was not war with - Chile; the incitement and enabling of a mass genocide in East Timor; and the personal involvement in the kidnap and murder of a journalist living in Washinton DC.
language: English
title: The Trial of Henry Kissinger
titlecomplete: The Trial of Henry Kissinger
characters: Anacharsis, Martin Amis, Daniel Ellsberg, Margaret Thatcher, J. William Fulbright, Indira Gandhi, Geoffrey Robertson, Michael Korda, Zhou Enlai, Saul Landau, Richard Nixon, Jorge Rafael Videla, Oliver North, Walter Isaacson, Baltasar Garzón, Aung San Suu Kyi, Henry Kissinger, Gerald Ford, Seymour Hersh, Joseph Heller, Yahya Khan, Makarios III, Augusto Pinochet, Josip Broz Tito, Suharto, Alfredo Stroessner, Mao Zedong, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harold Evans, Charles de Gaulle, Orlando Letelier, Philip Habib, Slobodan Milošević, Otto von Bismarck, Norman Podhoretz, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Tina Brown, J. Edgar Hoover, David Horowitz, Christopher Hitchens, Leonid Brezhnev, Joseph Bonanno, James Callaghan, Douglas MacArthur, H.R. Haldeman, Tennessee Williams, Allan Nairn, Thomas Karamessines, Roberto Viaux, Thomas Pappas, Amy Goodman, Saddam Hussein, Manuel Contreras, Ronald Reagan, Harry S. Truman, René Schneider, Elias P. Demetracopoulos, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Jimmy Carter, W. Averell Harriman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Dimitrios Ioannidis, John N. Mitchell, Salvador Allende, Gamal Abdel Nasser
genres: Audiobook, Essays, American, Politics, Biography, American History, War, Nonfiction, History, Journalism
ratings_count: 3890
places: Saigon, Suez Canal, Albuquerque, New Mexico, My Lai, Goa, Hanoi, Manhattan, New York City, New York, San Francisco, California, Painesville, Ohio, Bethesda, Maryland, Nicosia, Koh Tang, Nakhon Phanom, Nuremberg, Beijing, Key Biscayne, Florida, Kien Hoa, Brussels, Bến Tre, Langley, Virginia, Viña del Mar, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, Phnom Penh, Santiago, Lisbon, Jakarta, Nanjing, Dhaka, Camp David, Maryland, Florida, Mekong Delta, Dili, Athens, Paris, Bangkok, Washington, D.C., Cappoquin
publisher: Verso Books