Kill Anything That Moves : The Real American War in Vietnam

from qstewart

This book will become a must have addition to anyone's Vietnam War library and marks a turning point in how we will look at the war in the future. My Lai has become the accepted aberration of the war, but Turse opens new doors through his dogged research to show that maybe it was not an aberratio...

from cblaker

This book is an important contribution to the canon on the Vietnam War. The author researched court martial records, internal military memos and conducted interviews with veterans and Vietnamese over the past 10 years. What he produced is an important reassessment of America's involvement in Viet...

from jmulick

This book is not a pleasure to read. It is somewhat repetitious. These do not represent stylistic flaws, but they are fundamentally related to the subject matter. The subject matter is a systematic recounting of atrocity after atrocity, cover up after cover up, crime after crime, by named individ...

from Elliot1822

Nick Turse has written a directly in your face history of the American war in Vietnam, with a focuson our war on Vietnamese civilians. As Americans we've have long been taught that an event such as the My Lai massacre was an isolated incident in the Vietnam War. Author and historian Nick Turse sh...

from CharlesSvec

Wow. This book was a challenge to read, but not because of how it was written - but because of the disturbing information it contains. It brings to light a part of the war that I didn't realize even existed. It's upsetting to think that the higher levels of the military and government were only c...