Kill Anything That Moves, Nick Turse
Kill Anything That Moves, Nick Turse
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Kill Anything That Moves

Author: Nick Turse

Narrator: Don Lee

Unabridged: 8 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/21/2013


Synopsis

Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were “isolated incidents” in the Vietnam War, carried out by a few “bad apples.” However, as award-winning journalist and historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this pioneering investigation, violence against Vietnamese civilians was not at all exceptional. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of official orders to “kill anything that moves.”

Drawing on a decade of research into secret Pentagon files and extensive interviews with American veterans and Vietnamese survivors, Turse reveals the policies and actions that resulted in millions of innocent civilians killed and wounded. He lays out in shocking detail the workings of a military machine that made crimes all but inevitable.

Kill Anything That Moves finally brings us face-to-face with the truth of a war that haunts America to this day.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Zach on April 01, 2023

I guarantee that however angry you think you are about U.S. aggression and crimes against humanity in Vietnam (and Cambodia and Laos), it's not enough. This is a grueling exposition on the sadistic violence and destruction that the U.S. military brought to Vietnam for years, not sparing a single det......more

Goodreads review by Olethros on July 31, 2020

-El tiempo revela todo, y más que revelará.- Género. Ensayo. Lo que nos cuenta. El libro Dispara a todo lo que se mueva (publicación original: Kill Anything That Moves. The Real American War in Vietnam, 2013) se aproxima a la Guerra de Vietnam desde la perspectiva de una estrategia militar concreta, m......more

Goodreads review by Kist on October 07, 2024

Accomplishes what it sets out to do, which is important, by drawing attention to the horrific actions carried out during Vietnam. Lacks the human psychology side of the story, the why (beyond policy), that other books of this nature and framework (Ordinary Men, Bloodlands, The R*** of Nanking etc) h......more

Goodreads review by Nathan on May 07, 2022

Not an easy book, but something you should read.......more