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Body count: Lieutenant Calley's story, as told to John Sack;

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Quite possibly one of the most disturbing books I have ever read. Lt Calley rounded up, and then gunned down in cold blood women and children, that is a fact - he does not dispute that in this memior. His atempts to mitigate this behavior are incredible - the list of those to be held responsible begin with his subordinates and extend to "society". For junior Officers a case study in the need for moral courage and the horrific results of it's absence.

Very raw book. The reader gets to know leutenant Calley by reading his own words, while getting as well deepper in the bloody mess that was going on during the Vietnam war. It is also a good example of the problems veteran soldiers had to face after in the aftermath of the war. This is a good book to anyone interested in the Vietnam war. I can't believe I found it somewhere on a used book fair, and although it is a translation of the original english book, this is a report-style writen work is still one of my favorite war library books

The most important on the My Lai massacre. Or perhap it's not even about that event. It's truly a most disturbing book. There have been numerous reviews that mentioned the disturbing and depressing nature of the book and yet gave it less than 5 stars. That's disingenuous. A book that disturbs and moves you is hard to find. This one will do just that. No, it won't make you sit up and cry "It's a wonderful life". The book drips with truth, truth from a disturbed young man, but at no time do you believe that you are getting anything less than that. If you skip this book, don't even both reading other Vietnam war books. You don't want to know the truth.