{"product_id":"the-massacre-at-el-mozote-a-parable-of-the-cold-war-9780679755258","title":"The Massacre at El Mozote A Parable of the Cold","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA masterpiece of scrupulous investigative journalism that is also a testament to the forgotten victims of a neglected theater of the Cold War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnce in a rare while a writer reexamines a debated episode of recent history with such thoroughness and integrity that the truth can no longer be in doubt. Mark Danner [has done] just that. —\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn December 1981 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army's select, American-trained Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote, where they murdered hundreds of men, women, and children, often by decapitation. Although reports of the massacre—and photographs of its victims—appeared in the United States, the Reagan administration quickly dismissed them as propaganda. In the end, El Mozote was forgotten. The war in El Salvador continued, with American funding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Mark Danner's reconstruction of these events first appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, it sent shock waves through","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884222230871,"sku":"9780679755258","price":14.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780679755258.jpg?v=1722531000","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-massacre-at-el-mozote-a-parable-of-the-cold-war-9780679755258","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}