War Crimes in Vietnam

New edition with an additional Foreword by Russell Stetler and an Afterword by Tony Simpson.

Bertrand Russell was among the first in the West to raise his voice against the war in Vietnam. Here he relates his growing involvement in the struggle and illustrates the development of his thought as the war escalated. The author guides the reader through a land of napalm and ‘lazy dogs’, gas and chemicals, corruption and concentration camps, charting an independent but highly committed position. The catalogue of atrocities is one of the best documented to appear in the West, but this book is far more than a compilation of horrors; it is an examination of the Cold War setting in which the conflict occurs, with the author never failing to urge what must be done to save the Vietnamese people from further agony …

Fifty years after the Vietnam War finally ended, this timely edition includes a new Foreword by Russell Stetler, who worked with Bertrand Russell when War Crimes in Vietnam was being prepared for publication in early 1967. Tony Simpson adds a short Afterword on attempts by the British Foreign Office to undermine the work of the Vietnam International War Crimes Tribunal, which Russell convened in November 1966.