| Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam Contributor(s): Turse, Nick (Author) |
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ISBN: 1250045061 ISBN-13: 9781250045065 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - Vietnam War - History | Military - United States |
| Dewey: 959.704 |
| Series: American Empire Project |
| Physical Information: 1.11" H x 5.48" W x 8.33" (0.77 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian - Chronological Period - 1960's - Chronological Period - 1970's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians The American Empire ProjectWinner 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Turse, Nick: - Nick Turse, an award-winning journalist and historian, is the author of The Complex and the research director for the Nation Institute's TomDispatch.com. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Nation. Turse's investigations of U.S. war crimes in Vietnam have gained him a Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial Distinction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellowship at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He lives near New York City. |