Kill Anything That Moves by Nick Turse

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
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Picador USA
Year published	2013-12-31
Number of pages	400
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