Title: The Vietnam War on Trial
First published: November 2002
Description: Unfolding the Calley case step by step, Belknap shows how our system of military justice actually works. His dramatic reenactment takes readers through every stage of the trial, from pre-trial investigations to actual courtroom exchanges among prosecutors, defenders, witnesses, and judges. In the process, he reveals how a court-martial conducted within the public eye transformed a purely legal proceeding into a political debate about the conduct of the war. Calley.
Subjects: Trials, litigation, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1968, Trials (Murder), Courts-martial and courts of inquiry, Atrocities, Calley, william laws, jr., 1943-, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, atrocities