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The book "Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy", published in 1970, is an examination of the United States' conduct of the Vietnam War in comparison to the actions taken by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Taylor chose as the epigraph to the book an excerpt from a 1946 statement by Gen. Douglas MacArthur confirming the death sentence imposed by a U. S. military commission on Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita: