Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Nick Turse
Product Details
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9781250045065
- Published:
- 01 Jan 2014
- Publisher:
- Macmillan
- Dimensions:
- 400 pages - 210 x 140 x 20mm
Categories:
Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by just a few “bad apples.” But as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this groundbreaking investigation, violence against Vietnamese non-combatants was not at all exceptional during the conflict. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of official orders to “kill anything that moves.”
Drawing on more than a decade of research into secret Pentagon archives and extensive interviews with American veterans and Vietnamese survivors, Turse reveals for the first time the workings of a military machine that resulted in millions of innocent civilians killed and wounded—what one soldier called “a My Lai a month.” Devastating and definitive, Kill Anything That Moves finally brings us face-to-face with the truth of a war that haunts America to this day.
Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians.