
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 & historian Nick Turse demonstrates in this groundbreaking investigation violence against Vietnamese non-combatants was not at all exceptional during the conflict Rather it was pervasive & systematic the predictable consequence of official orders to kill anything that moves Drawing on more than a decade of research into secret Pentagon archives & extensive interviews with American veterans & Vietnamese survivors Turse reveals for the first time the workings of a military machine that resulted in millions of innocent civilians killed & wounded
- what one soldier called a My Lai a month Devastating & definitive Kill Anything That Moves finally brings us face-to-face with the truth of a war that haunts America to this day