Village of Ben Suc

Description: "Since it's appearance in The New Yorker, on July 15, 1967, Jonathan Schell's THE VILLAGE OF BEN SUC has come to be regarded as a classic of American reporting. It is a rigorously factual account of the destruction by the United States Army, of a South Vietnamese village and of what happened to the 3500 in habitants"--

Review Quotes: "An eloquently understated documentary in precise and relevant terms."
--Kirkus Reviews

"Arguably the most important book of reporting from Vietnam."
--Bill McKibben, The New Yorker

"One of the most sobering indictments yet seen of the purposes and conduct of the Vietnam War."
--Eliot Fremont-Smith, The New York Times

"Originally published as an essay for the New Yorker in 1967, The Village of Ben Suc offers a stark lesson in the banality and absurdity of human endeavour."
--Guy Stevenson, TLS