Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam
- ISBN-10
- 0805086919
- ISBN-13
- 9780805086911
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 370
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-01-15
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Nick Turse
Description
Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a controversial history of the Vietnam War argues that American acts of violence against millions of Vietnamese civilians were a pervasive and systematic part of the war and that soldiers were deliberately trained and ordered to conduct hate-based slaughter campaigns.
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