The Massacre At El Mozote: A Parable Of The Cold War (Classics of Reportage S.) - Tapa blanda

In December 1981, the inhabitants of a small Salvadoran hamlet were systematically exterminated by the Atacatl Battalion, a US-trained counter-insurgency force. The Reagan administration, determined to preserve US support for El Salvador's war against leftist guerrillas, downplayed reports of this massacre, dismissing them as propaganda, and the American-funded war in El Salvador continued. Mark Danner's subsequent reconstruction is a masterpiece of scrupulous investigative journalism and a testament to the forgotten victims of one of the worst massacres in Latin American history.

Mark Danner, hailed as 'one of our best, most ambitious narrative journalists' by Susan Sontag, is a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker and Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Torture and Truth (Granta Books).