Kill Anything That Moves Kill Anything That Moves
American Empire Project

Kill Anything That Moves

The Real American War in Vietnam

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Publisher Description

Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians

The American Empire Project
Winner of the Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Distinction

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.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2013
January 15
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
543
Pages
PUBLISHER
Henry Holt and Co.
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
7.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Angel Zam69023 ,

Kill Anything That Moves

Finally someone says the truth instead of the whitewashed history the American government tries shoving down everyone's throat

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Kill anything that moves

Just didn't like it

Flashkube ,

A Must Read

This book is a must read and a real page turner. I was mesmerized by the horrors we inflicted on civilians in Vietnam. The unrelenting cruelty is hard to take but, fortunately, the book is not long. People need to know the real story about what happens when we attack countries that did not attack us. The author said he thought he'd be looking for a needle in a haystack but instead he found a stack filled with needles. The murders of civilians were that frequent. The number is in the millions and documented.

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