Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
Nick Turse,Nick Turse Publisher: Metropolitan Books December 31 2013 EAN: 9781250045065 ISBN: 1250045061 Items marked as WAREHOUSE may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store. Synopsis:
The New York Times Bestseller 2014 American Book Award Winner Winner of the Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Distinction
"An indispensable, paradigm-shifting new history of the war...All these decades later, Americans still haven't drawn the right lesson from Vietnam." --San Francisco ChronicleBased on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians. From Metropolitan Books' American Empire Project, a series of argument-driven works aiming to combat American imperialism. 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.
