Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (American Empire Project #1)

Nick Turse

Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
4.25 · 16 ratings · 384 pages · Published: 30 Aug 2011
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam by Nick Turse
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 noncombatants 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.
Amazon Other stores
As an Amazon Associate thebooknaut.com earns from qualifying purchases

Tagged as:

    romance tags

    crime tags

    literary-fiction tags

    historical-fiction tags

    fantasy tags

    sci-fi tags

    action-adventure tags

    thriller tags

    horror tags

    Collections/Custom tags

    Report duplicate books, missing or wrong information

    The 'American Empire Project' series

    4.16 · 74 ratings
    politics · non-fiction · war · military · historical · audiobook · cold-war · journalism
    American Empire Project reading order and complete book list  ❯

    Reviews

    Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam by Nick Turse

    Report duplicate books, missing or wrong information