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So quaint to imagine a time when magazine articles were sometimes long enough to be turned into short books. I learned this one was, though, so I'm lo
So quaint to imagine a time when magazine articles were sometimes long enough to be turned into short books. I learned this one was, though, so I'm logging it. Feel free to read it , or you can check out a copy from the . Went and tracked it down myself the other day after watching Brian De Palma's screen version. De Palma has a tendency to sensationalize, and that's not necessary (and probably even ill-advised?) here, when the plain facts of the true story are already so brutal and gutting鈥攊n short, in 1966, five US infantrymen in Vietnam kidnapped a young woman, Phan Thi Mao, from a small village and led her miles into the jungle, where four of them raped and murdered her while one refused to participate, and it wasn't until their return that he was eventually able to turn his fellow soldiers in via a chaplin, after several ignored attempts to report the crimes up the regular chain of command. Lang's article/book is largely an extended interview with the soldier who refused to participate, pseudonymed as Sven Eriksson. The direct, blunt prose of the original piece, laying out cleanly Eriksson's recollections and his reactions to his own recollections as he's being interviewed, is better at complicating his complicity in everything that happened. You can sense how much more he holds himself accountable for failing to help Mao escape, and that he doesn't consider himself a hero merely for reporting things after the fact. You also get a better sense of his struggles, as a reserved Midwesterner, to move on mentally. I do wonder if there's more that could have been revealed about Mao herself here. She couldn't give further testimony of her own, obviously, but Lang a few times quotes her sister, who took the stand at the mens' trials. If, in her time in court, she dropped any further hints regarding Mao's humanity and her life before her violent end, I hope Lang didn't leave them out. Regardless, it's still an impressively reported work.
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