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Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

Turse, Nick

Was the killing of Vietnamese civilians built into how America fought the war, rather than a rare exception like My Lai?

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Author
Turse, Nick

Why read it

  • You will learn to ask what a single famous atrocity hides when it is treated as the whole story
  • You will see how an official position can survive for decades after complaints were sent in
  • You will understand what it takes for one witness to come forward and name those responsible

Who it is for

  • A reader who learned Vietnam from films and one famous massacre
  • Someone weighing how nations remember what their soldiers did
  • A citizen asking how a military handles reports of abuse

Contents

  1. Introduction: An Operation, Not an Aberration
  2. 1. The Massacre at Trieu Ai
  3. 2. A System of Suffering
  4. 3. Overkill
  5. 4. A Litany of Atrocities
  6. 5. Unbounded Misery
  7. 6. The Bummer, the “Gook-Hunting” General, and the Butcher of the Delta
  8. 7. Where Have All the War Crimes Gone?
  9. Epilogue: Wandering Ghosts
  10. The American Empire Project

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