The trial of Henry Kissinger
By: Christopher Hitchens
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781859846315
Subjects: History; Relations extérieures; Oorlogsmisdaden; Biographies; Hommes d'État; Political crimes and offenses; Histoire; Morale; Processen (rechtspraak); Foreign relations; Au enpolitik; Ethics; Crimes et délits politiques; Biography; Statesmen
Description: Drawing on first-hand testimony, previously unpublished documentation and broad sweeps through material released under the Freedom of Information Act, Christopher Hitchens mounts a devastating indictment of a man whose ambition and ruthlessness have directly resulted in both individual murders and widespread, indiscriminate slaughter.--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Curtain-raiser: the secret of '68; title: Indochina; title: A sample of cases: Kissinger's war crimes in Indochina; title: Bangladesh: one genocide, one coup and one assassination; title: Chile; title: An afterword on Chile; title: Cyprus; title: East Timor; title: A "wet job" in Washington?; title: Afterword: the profit margin; title: Law and justice.