Kill Anything That Moves 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 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.Nick Turse is the author of The Complex and a fellow at the Nation Institute. He is also the managing editor of TomDispatch.com. Among other outlets, his work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Nation. Turse won the Ridenhour Award for Reportorial Excellence, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship at Harvard University's Radcliffe Center for Advanced Study for his investigations of American war crimes in Vietnam. He lives in the vicinity of New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781250045065 |
| ISBN 10 | 1250045061 |
| Title | Kill Anything That Moves |
| Author | Nick Turse |
| Series | American Empire Project Ser |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Picador USA |
| Year published | 2013-12-31 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
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