cover image Four Hours in My Lai

Four Hours in My Lai

Michael Bilton, Kevin Sim. Penguin Books, $17 (448pp) ISBN 978-0-14-017709-1

The authors conduct a gut-wrenching inquiry into the tragedy at My Lai on March 16, 1968, when U.S. Army troops slaughtered some 500 Vietnamese villagers. Photos. (Mar.)