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Kill Anything That Moves
Nick Turse
The Real American War in Vietnam
Metropolitan Books
January 2013
On Sale: January 15, 2013
385 pages
ISBN: 0805086919
EAN: 9780805086911
Kindle: B008FPSTOQ
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Non-Fiction
Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a
startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians Americans have long been taught that events such as the
notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the
Vietnam War, carried out by "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 orders to "kill
anything that moves." Drawing on more than a decade of research in secret Pentagon
files and extensive interviews with American veterans and
Vietnamese survivors, Turse reveals for the first time how
official policies resulted in millions of innocent civilians
killed and wounded. In shocking detail, he lays out the
workings of a military machine that made crimes in almost
every major American combat unit all but inevitable. Kill
Anything That Moves takes us from archives filled with
Washington's long-suppressed war crime investigations to the
rural Vietnamese hamlets that bore the brunt of the war;
from boot camps where young American soldiers learned to
hate all Vietnamese to bloodthirsty campaigns like Operation
Speedy Express, in which a general obsessed with body counts
led soldiers to commit what one participant called "a My Lai
a month." Thousands of Vietnam books later, Kill Anything That Moves,
devastating and definitive, finally brings us face‑to‑face
with the truth of a war that haunts Americans to this day.
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