In the Lake of the Woods

     Tim O’Brien’s 1994 novel, In the Lake of the Woods, journeys across many terrains, each hemmed by events which occurred March 16, 1968 in a remote Asian village. For there, forty years ago this week, a group of American infantrymen massacred between three and five hundred inhabitants of the tiny Vietnamese hamlet known as Thuan Yen. [...]

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