Kill anything that moves / Nick Turse

Public ISBD Titre : Kill anything that moves : the real American war in Vietnam Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Nick Turse, Auteur Editeur : Picador Année de publication : 2014 Importance : 1 vol. (376 p. - [8] p. de pl.) ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-250-04506-5 Langues : Français (fre) Catégories : Guerre du Vietnam (1961-1975) Guerre du Vietnam (1961-1975) -- Atrocités Massacres -- Vietnam -- 1945-1970 Politique militaire -- États-Unis Index. décimale : 973.9 Résumé : "[The author] reveals ... how official policies resulted in millions of innocent civilians killed and wounded ... Turse lays out the workings of a military machine that made crimes in almost every major American combat unit all but inevitable. [This book] takes us from archives filled with Washington's long-suppressed war crime investigations to the rural Vietnamese hamlets that bore the brunt of the war; from boot camps where young American soldiers learned to hate all Vietnamese to bloodthirsty campaigns like Operation Speedy Express, in which a general obsessed with body counts led soldiers to commit what one participant called 'a My Lai a month'"--Publisher's description Kill anything that moves : the real American war in Vietnam [texte imprimé] / Nick Turse, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Picador, 2014 . - 1 vol. (376 p. - [8] p. de pl.). ISBN : 978-1-250-04506-5 Langues : Français (fre) Catégories : Guerre du Vietnam (1961-1975) Guerre du Vietnam (1961-1975) -- Atrocités Massacres -- Vietnam -- 1945-1970 Politique militaire -- États-Unis Index. décimale : 973.9 Résumé : "[The author] reveals ... how official policies resulted in millions of innocent civilians killed and wounded ... Turse lays out the workings of a military machine that made crimes in almost every major American combat unit all but inevitable. [This book] takes us from archives filled with Washington's long-suppressed war crime investigations to the rural Vietnamese hamlets that bore the brunt of the war; from boot camps where young American soldiers learned to hate all Vietnamese to bloodthirsty campaigns like Operation Speedy Express, in which a general obsessed with body counts led soldiers to commit what one participant called 'a My Lai a month'"--Publisher's description

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