profound challenge--"After such knowledge, what forgiveness?" The
challenge seems to us to call for response, action, and a sense of
moral urgency, first about the present but extending also to war-
linked criminality--and the criminality of war itself--in the past
and in the possible future. In this spirit, we are devoting our royal-
ties from this book to the work of the Education/Action Conference
on U.S. Crimes of War in Vietnam.

We are indebted to Stewart Meacham, Rev. Richard Fernandez,
and Francine Gray for joining with us in discussion and action on
these matters in ways that contributed greatly to the emergence of
this book; and to Jonathan Lear and Claudia Cords for invaluable
research assistance. Alice Mayhew, our editor at Random House, has
been a spiritual as well as an intellectual part of this project almost
from its inception. She has shared our dilemmas of selection, and
our decisions to leave out a number of "obvious" (because well-
known) essays and commentaries in favor of others ordinarily less
accessible to an American audience.

RICHARD A. FALK
GABRIEL KOLKO
ROBERT JAY LIFTON

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