Kill Anything That Moves: American Empire Project
Autor Nick Turseen Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 ian 2014
Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians
The American Empire Project
Winner 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.
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ISBN-13: 9781250045065
ISBN-10: 1250045061
Pagini: 416
Ilustrații: includes two 8-page black & white photograph sections
Dimensiuni: 139 x 212 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Picador USA
Seria American Empire Project
ISBN-10: 1250045061
Pagini: 416
Ilustrații: includes two 8-page black & white photograph sections
Dimensiuni: 139 x 212 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Picador USA
Seria American Empire Project
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Notă biografică
Nick Turse is the author of "The Complex," the managing editor for TomDispatch.com, and a fellow at the Nation Institute. His work has appeared in the "Los Angeles Times," the "San Francisco Chronicle," and "The Nation," among other publications. Turse's investigations of American 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.
Recenzii
"A tour de force of reporting and research: the first time comprehensive portrait, written with dignity and skill, of what American forces actually were doing in Vietnam. The findings, hidden behind a screen of official lies and cover-ups all these years, are shocking almost beyond words.... Some thirty thousand books have been written about the Vietnam War. Many more will now be needed, and they must begin with "Kill Anything That Moves.""
--Jonathan Schell, author of "The Real War: The Classic Reporting on the Vietnam War"
"This deeply disturbing book provides the fullest documentation yet of the brutality and ugliness that marked America's war in Vietnam. No doubt some will charge Nick Turse with exaggeration or overstatement. Yet the evidence he has assembled is irrefutable. With the publication of "Kill Anything That Moves," the claim that My Lai was a one-off event becomes utterly unsustainable."
--Andrew J. Bacevich, author of "Washington Rules: America's Path To Permanent War"
"This book is an overdue and powerfully detailed account of widespread war crimes--homicide and torture and mutilation and rape--committed by American soldiers over the course of our military engagement in Vietnam. Nick Turse's research and reportage is based in part on the U.S. military's own records, reports, and transcripts, many of them long hidden from public scrutiny. "Kill Anything That Moves" is not only a compendium of pervasive and illegal and sickening savagery toward Vietnamese civilians, but it is also a record of repetitive deceit and cover-ups on the part of high ranking officers and officials. In the end, I hope, Turse's book will become a hard-to-avoid, hard-to-dismiss corrective to the very common belief that war crimes and tolerance for war crimes were mere anomalies during our country's military involvement in Vietnam."
--Tim O'Brien, author of "The Things They Carried"
"American patriots will appreciate Nick Turse's meticulously do
"A powerful case... With his urgent but highly readable style, Turse delves into the secret history of U.S.-led atrocities. He has brought to his book an impressive trove of new research -- archives explored and eyewitnesses interviewed in the United States and Vietnam. With superb narrative skill, he spotlights a troubling question: Why, with all the evidence collected by the military at the time of the war, were atrocities not prosecuted?"
--"Washington Post"
"In "Kill Anything that Moves," Nick Turse has for the first time put together a comprehensive picture, written with mastery and dignity, of what American forces actually were doing in Vietnam. The findings disclose an almost unspeakable truth... Like a tightening net, the web of stories and reports drawn from myriad sources coalesces into a convincing, inescapable portrait of this war--a portrait that, as an American, you do not wish to see; that, having seen, you wish you could forget, but that you should not forget."
--"The Nation"
"Nick Turse's explosive, groundbreaking reporting uncovers the horrifying truth."
"--Vanity Fair
"
"Explosive... A painful yet compelling look at the horrors of war."
--"Parade"
"Astounding... Meticulous, extraordinary, and oddly moving."
--"Bookforum
""Meticulously documented, utterly persuasive, this book is a shattering and dismaying read."
--"Minneapolis Star Tribune
""If you are faint-hearted, you might want to keep some smelling salts nearby when you read it. It's that bad... The truth hurts. This is an important book."
--"Dayton Daily News"
"Turse is to be commended for compiling a detailed, well-documented account of atrocities committed by American troops against civilians in Vietnam.... If you don't believe that there were thousands of cases of American troops running amok among the civilian population of Vietnam, Turse's research will change your mind. For more than a decade, he scoured reams of U
"An indispensable new history of the war... "Kill Anything That Moves" is a paradigm-shifting, connect-the-dots history of American atrocities that reads like a thriller; it will convince those with the stomach to read it that all these decades later Americans, certainly the military brass and the White House, still haven't drawn the right lesson from Vietnam."
"--San Francisco Chronicle
"
"A powerful case... With his urgent but highly readable style, Turse delves into the secret history of U.S.-led atrocities. He has brought to his book an impressive trove of new research--archives explored and eyewitnesses interviewed in the United States and Vietnam. With superb narrative skill, he spotlights a troubling question: Why, with all the evidence collected by the military at the time of the war, were atrocities not prosecuted?"
--"Washington Post"
"There have been many memorable accounts of the terrible things done in Vietnam--memoirs, histories, documentaries and movies. But Nick Turse has given us a fresh holistic work that stands alone for its blending of history and journalism, for the integrity of research brought to life through the diligence of first-person interviews.... Here is a powerful message for us today--a reminder of what war really costs."
--Bill Moyers, "Moyers & Company"
"In "Kill Anything that Moves," Nick Turse has for the first time put together a comprehensive picture, written with mastery and dignity, of what American forces actually were doing in Vietnam. The findings disclose an almost unspeakable truth... Like a tightening net, the web of stories and reports drawn from myriad sources coalesces into a convincing, inescapable portrait of this war--a portrait that, as an American, you do not wish to see; that, having seen, you wish you could forget, but that you should not forget."
--Jonathan Schell, "The Nation"
"Nick Turse's explosive, groundbreaking reporting uncovers the horrifying truth."
"--Vani
"New York Times" Bestseller
With a New Afterword
"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 Chronicle
""A searing and meticulously documented book...A damning account of the horrors the United States inflicted on civilians."--"Financial Times
"
"Harrowing.""--The New York Review of Books
"
"A powerful case...With his urgent but highly readable style, Turse delves into the secret history of U.S.-led atrocities. He has brought to his book an impressive trove of new research--archives explored and eyewitnesses interviewed in the United States and Vietnam. With superb narrative skill, he spotlights a troubling question: Why, with all the evidence collected by the military at the time of the war, were atrocities not prosecuted?"--"Washington Post"
"There have been many memorable accounts of the terrible things done in Vietnam--memoirs, histories, documentaries, and movies. But Nick Turse has given us a fresh holistic work that stands alone for its blending of history and journalism, for the integrity of research brought to life through the diligence of first-person interviews....Here is a powerful message for us today--a reminder of what war really costs."--Bill Moyers, "Moyers & Company
""In "Kill Anything That Moves," Nick Turse has for the first time put together a comprehensive picture, written with mastery and dignity, of what American forces actually were doing in Vietnam. The findings disclose an almost unspeakable truth....Like a tightening net, the web of stories and reports drawn from myriad sources coalesces into a convincing, inescapable portrait of this war--a portrait that, as an American, you do not wish to see; that, having seen, you wish you could forget, but that you should not forget."--Jonathan Schell, "The Nation
"
"""A masterpiece... Kill Anything That Moves is not only one of t
--Jonathan Schell, author of "The Real War: The Classic Reporting on the Vietnam War"
"This deeply disturbing book provides the fullest documentation yet of the brutality and ugliness that marked America's war in Vietnam. No doubt some will charge Nick Turse with exaggeration or overstatement. Yet the evidence he has assembled is irrefutable. With the publication of "Kill Anything That Moves," the claim that My Lai was a one-off event becomes utterly unsustainable."
--Andrew J. Bacevich, author of "Washington Rules: America's Path To Permanent War"
"This book is an overdue and powerfully detailed account of widespread war crimes--homicide and torture and mutilation and rape--committed by American soldiers over the course of our military engagement in Vietnam. Nick Turse's research and reportage is based in part on the U.S. military's own records, reports, and transcripts, many of them long hidden from public scrutiny. "Kill Anything That Moves" is not only a compendium of pervasive and illegal and sickening savagery toward Vietnamese civilians, but it is also a record of repetitive deceit and cover-ups on the part of high ranking officers and officials. In the end, I hope, Turse's book will become a hard-to-avoid, hard-to-dismiss corrective to the very common belief that war crimes and tolerance for war crimes were mere anomalies during our country's military involvement in Vietnam."
--Tim O'Brien, author of "The Things They Carried"
"American patriots will appreciate Nick Turse's meticulously do
"A powerful case... With his urgent but highly readable style, Turse delves into the secret history of U.S.-led atrocities. He has brought to his book an impressive trove of new research -- archives explored and eyewitnesses interviewed in the United States and Vietnam. With superb narrative skill, he spotlights a troubling question: Why, with all the evidence collected by the military at the time of the war, were atrocities not prosecuted?"
--"Washington Post"
"In "Kill Anything that Moves," Nick Turse has for the first time put together a comprehensive picture, written with mastery and dignity, of what American forces actually were doing in Vietnam. The findings disclose an almost unspeakable truth... Like a tightening net, the web of stories and reports drawn from myriad sources coalesces into a convincing, inescapable portrait of this war--a portrait that, as an American, you do not wish to see; that, having seen, you wish you could forget, but that you should not forget."
--"The Nation"
"Nick Turse's explosive, groundbreaking reporting uncovers the horrifying truth."
"--Vanity Fair
"
"Explosive... A painful yet compelling look at the horrors of war."
--"Parade"
"Astounding... Meticulous, extraordinary, and oddly moving."
--"Bookforum
""Meticulously documented, utterly persuasive, this book is a shattering and dismaying read."
--"Minneapolis Star Tribune
""If you are faint-hearted, you might want to keep some smelling salts nearby when you read it. It's that bad... The truth hurts. This is an important book."
--"Dayton Daily News"
"Turse is to be commended for compiling a detailed, well-documented account of atrocities committed by American troops against civilians in Vietnam.... If you don't believe that there were thousands of cases of American troops running amok among the civilian population of Vietnam, Turse's research will change your mind. For more than a decade, he scoured reams of U
"An indispensable new history of the war... "Kill Anything That Moves" is a paradigm-shifting, connect-the-dots history of American atrocities that reads like a thriller; it will convince those with the stomach to read it that all these decades later Americans, certainly the military brass and the White House, still haven't drawn the right lesson from Vietnam."
"--San Francisco Chronicle
"
"A powerful case... With his urgent but highly readable style, Turse delves into the secret history of U.S.-led atrocities. He has brought to his book an impressive trove of new research--archives explored and eyewitnesses interviewed in the United States and Vietnam. With superb narrative skill, he spotlights a troubling question: Why, with all the evidence collected by the military at the time of the war, were atrocities not prosecuted?"
--"Washington Post"
"There have been many memorable accounts of the terrible things done in Vietnam--memoirs, histories, documentaries and movies. But Nick Turse has given us a fresh holistic work that stands alone for its blending of history and journalism, for the integrity of research brought to life through the diligence of first-person interviews.... Here is a powerful message for us today--a reminder of what war really costs."
--Bill Moyers, "Moyers & Company"
"In "Kill Anything that Moves," Nick Turse has for the first time put together a comprehensive picture, written with mastery and dignity, of what American forces actually were doing in Vietnam. The findings disclose an almost unspeakable truth... Like a tightening net, the web of stories and reports drawn from myriad sources coalesces into a convincing, inescapable portrait of this war--a portrait that, as an American, you do not wish to see; that, having seen, you wish you could forget, but that you should not forget."
--Jonathan Schell, "The Nation"
"Nick Turse's explosive, groundbreaking reporting uncovers the horrifying truth."
"--Vani
"New York Times" Bestseller
With a New Afterword
"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 Chronicle
""A searing and meticulously documented book...A damning account of the horrors the United States inflicted on civilians."--"Financial Times
"
"Harrowing.""--The New York Review of Books
"
"A powerful case...With his urgent but highly readable style, Turse delves into the secret history of U.S.-led atrocities. He has brought to his book an impressive trove of new research--archives explored and eyewitnesses interviewed in the United States and Vietnam. With superb narrative skill, he spotlights a troubling question: Why, with all the evidence collected by the military at the time of the war, were atrocities not prosecuted?"--"Washington Post"
"There have been many memorable accounts of the terrible things done in Vietnam--memoirs, histories, documentaries, and movies. But Nick Turse has given us a fresh holistic work that stands alone for its blending of history and journalism, for the integrity of research brought to life through the diligence of first-person interviews....Here is a powerful message for us today--a reminder of what war really costs."--Bill Moyers, "Moyers & Company
""In "Kill Anything That Moves," Nick Turse has for the first time put together a comprehensive picture, written with mastery and dignity, of what American forces actually were doing in Vietnam. The findings disclose an almost unspeakable truth....Like a tightening net, the web of stories and reports drawn from myriad sources coalesces into a convincing, inescapable portrait of this war--a portrait that, as an American, you do not wish to see; that, having seen, you wish you could forget, but that you should not forget."--Jonathan Schell, "The Nation
"
"""A masterpiece... Kill Anything That Moves is not only one of t
Descriere
Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, this is a startling and sure to be controversial history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians.