[Peace-discuss] interview about the book: Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

[C. G. Estabrook]

This book was discussed on 'AWARE on the Air' last week, although the program is not yet posted to the fb page.

See also this account of it: <http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175639/tomgram%3A_jonathan_schell%2C_seeing_the_reality_of_the_vietnam_war%2C_50_years_late/>

--CGE

On Jan 28, 2013, at 6:23 PM, Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 'Anything That Moves': Civilians And The Vietnam War
> Fresh Air
> 
> "The U.S. government has maintained that atrocities like [the My Lai
> Massacre] were isolated incidents in the conflict. Nick Turse says
> otherwise. In his new book, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real
> American War in Vietnam, Turse argues that the intentional killing of
> civilians was quite common in a war that claimed 2 million civilian
> lives, with 5.3 million civilians wounded and 11 million refugees."
> 
> Listen to the interview:
> http://www.npr.org/2013/01/28/169076259/anything-that-moves-civilians-and-the-vietnam-war
> 
> Kill Anything That Moves
> The Real American War in Vietnam
> by Nick Turse
> Hardcover, 370 pages
> 
> 
> "sometime after I published my first article on this, the records were
> pulled from the Archives' shelves. And they haven't been on the public
> shelves since."
> 
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