“Nick’s book makes for timely if extraordinarily painful reading, and I sat down with him recently to talk about the ongoing relevance of Vietnam, massacres, and secretly photocopying whole US government archives.” So writes Dan Denvir in prelude to an interview with me for VICE magazine about my new book, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.
Read the full interview here: “The Secret History of the Vietnam War” | VICE
“I found myself tearing up, gagging at times, as I turned the pages.”
This generally isn’t what you like to read to begin a review of your book. But I couldn’t be happier, more humbled, or more moved with the review of Kill Anything That Moves by wartime aid worker-turned-reporter Tom Fox in America magazine. The piece is personal and poignant and concludes: “Kill Anything That Moves should become mandatory reading in all U.S. history classes and in classrooms where warfare is taught. But can we face the dark side of our military policies? Can we, as a nation, learn from the past? I am not optimistic. Reading this book and then passing it along could possibly pave the way. We owe this much to the ghosts of wars past and those to come.”
For those of you in and around New York City, I’ll be giving a reading and signing copies of my New York Times bestseller Kill Anything that Moves at 192 Books in Chelsea (at 192 Tenth Avenue at 21st Street) on March 27th at 7pm. For more information, call 212-255-4022 or click here.
Very happy to see that Powell’s Books’ Daily Dose says Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam is “as important a contribution to the vast Vietnam War record as any ever published” and calls it a “Must Read!”
BOOK REVIEW: “Kill Anything that Moves,” by Nick Turse. | StarTribune.com
I’m proud to say that Kill Anything that Moves is the lead review in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. And I really couldn’t ask for better endorsement of the book: “Meticulously documented, utterly persuasive, this book is a shattering and dismaying read.”
BOOK REVIEW: “Kill Anything that Moves,” by Nick Turse. | StarTribune.com
I’m proud to say that Kill Anything that Moves is the lead review in today’s Minneapolis Star Tribune. And I really couldn’t ask for better endorsement of the book: “Meticulously documented, utterly persuasive, this book is a shattering and dismaying read.”
For half a century we have been arguing about “the Vietnam War.” Is it possible that we didn’t know what we were talking about? After all that has been written (some 30,000 books and counting), it scarcely seems possible, but such, it turns out, has literally been the case.
Now, 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. Meticulously piecing together newly released classified information, court-martial records, Pentagon reports, and firsthand interviews in Vietnam and the United States, as well as contemporaneous press accounts and secondary literature, Turse discovers that episodes of devastation, murder, massacre, rape, and torture once considered isolated atrocities were in fact the norm, adding up to a continuous stream of atrocity, unfolding, year after year, throughout that country.
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Jonathan Schell, Seeing the Reality of the Vietnam War, 50 Years Late | TomDispatch (I’ve been generally bowled over by the response to Kill Anything that Moves but this is particularly special. Schell’s reporting from Vietnam was incomparable!) |
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Bill Morris, “Why Are We Still Reading About Vietnam? Kill Anything That Moves by Nick Turse.” (via millionsmillions) This is the review you dare not dream about because you imagine it could never happen. To be mentioned with the likes of Neil Sheehan, David Halberstam, Seymour Hersh, Jonathan Schell, Frances FitzGerald, Michael Herr, Philip Caputo, Bobbie Ann Mason, Robert Stone, Jayne Anne Phillips, Tim O’Brien, Ward Just, and, Graham Greene!?! I’m speechless. |
![I’m very grateful (and a little shocked) that Parade magazine made Kill Anything that Moves a “Parade Pick.” They call it “explosive… a painful yet compelling look at the horrors of war.” Meanwhile, Vanity Fair has a similar assessment: “explosive, groundbreaking reporting [that] uncovers the horrifying truth.” Even the New York Post, of all places, included it in its “Required Reading” column. I’m amazed.
If you’re so inclined, you can order the book at Amazon, IndieBound, Barnes and Noble, or get it from iBooks, Kobo, Amazon’s Kindle store and most anywhere else through links here.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/35131bf37428595439f1b014934fc854/tumblr_mglidueARK1qdtt31o1_500.png)
I’m very grateful (and a little shocked) that Parade magazine made Kill Anything that Moves a “Parade Pick.” They call it “explosive… a painful yet compelling look at the horrors of war.” Meanwhile, Vanity Fair has a similar assessment: “explosive, groundbreaking reporting [that] uncovers the horrifying truth.” Even the New York Post, of all places, included it in its “Required Reading” column. I’m amazed.
If you’re so inclined, you can order the book at Amazon, IndieBound, Barnes and Noble, or get it from iBooks, Kobo, Amazon’s Kindle store and most anywhere else through links here.
