![]() Collected here are images that tell the story of the war that left a deep and lasting impression on American life. He lives near New York City.To cover the Vietnam War, the Associated Press gathered an extraordinary group of superb photojournalists in its Saigon bureau, creating one of the great photographic legacies of the 20th century. 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. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Nation, among other publications. Nick Turse is the author of The Complex, the managing editor for, and a fellow at the Nation Institute. "American patriots will appreciate Nick Turse's meticulously documented book, which for the first time reveals the real war in Vietnam and explains why it has taken so long to learn the whole truth." -James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers Army (Ret.), and author of Washington Rules: America's Path To Permanent War With the publication of Kill Anything That Moves, the claim that My Lai was a one-off event becomes utterly unsustainable." -Andrew J. Yet the evidence he has assembled is irrefutable. No doubt some will charge Nick Turse with exaggeration or overstatement. "This deeply disturbing book provides the fullest documentation yet of the brutality and ugliness that marked America's war in Vietnam. We still prefer kicking down doors to talking." -Seymour Hersh, staff writer, The New Yorker We failed, as Turse makes clear, to deal after the Vietnam War with the murders that took place, and today-four decades later-the lessons have yet to be learned. "Nick Turse reminds us again, in this painful and important book, why war should always be a last resort, and especially wars that have little to do with American national security. 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 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. military's own records, reports, and transcripts, many of them long hidden from public scrutiny. Nick Turse's research and reportage is based in part on the U.S. "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. ![]() 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 The findings disclose an almost unspeakable truth. "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. 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. Rather, it was pervasive and systematic, the predictable consequence of official orders to kill anything that moves.ĭrawing 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. 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. Winner of the Ridenhour Prize for Reportorial DistinctionĪmericans 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. Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians ![]()
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