Reviews

Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam by Nick Turse

molly_vi0let's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

baffledborealis's review

challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

courtney_scott1025's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

5.0

Man, this was probably the best book to truly learn about the US’s atrocities in Vietnam, but it is so very difficult to get through. This one took awhile. Every trigger warning possible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Child death, Rape, Violence, Gun violence, Sexual harassment, Racism, Physical abuse, Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Racial slurs, Gore, Misogyny, Body horror, Sexual assault, War, Torture, Sexual violence, Murder, Genocide, Death, and Child abuse

eiwex's review

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

This book is a light in the misinformation perpetuated by the US government and sell out historians. As American citizens we should 1. Never thank but have service members grapple with this history and the atrocities they continue to commit 2. Learn this history ourselves and hold our country accountable, 3. Fight like hell against US imperialism. Fuck this country and fuck the US military. May it end during our time. Inshallah. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Pedophilia, War, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Rape, Racism, Suicide, and Racial slurs

almostqualified's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative medium-paced

4.75

poppymonster's review against another edition

5.0

The Vietnam War has always been difficult for me to fully comprehend, especially with the limited information available about the war in comparison to wars fought decades prior. I didn’t understand why it was seemingly relegated to the background when survivors of the Vietnam war were more numerous than those of either world wars.
I have despised every step taken on that journey to understanding, including this book. It is ugly and filled with imperialism and racism that the US pretends does not exist. I hate that the decade long war was fought to suppress people who wanted to be free of an empire. And the majority of the soldiers on the ground were from a nation that prides itself on the Revolutionary War - their own nation’s fight for freedom from an empire.
The war crimes documented in this book illuminate in part the horrors of a war in which the lives of the non-white were devalued and snuffed out in a orgiastic meat grinder. It also documents the suppression of information that illuminates why the war isn’t talked about nearly as much as other US wars.
Highly recommend.

tendermarimo's review

informative sad medium-paced

4.5

wicklh1's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

4.0

princxporkchop's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.75

Crucial for understanding the scope of the Vietnam War and just how far the US government went to cover up war crimes. A truly haunting read that traces the lineage of colonialism and imperialism to present day with the rhetoric surrounding Israel’s and the west’s genocide in Palestine.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Physical abuse, War, Xenophobia, Racial slurs, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Kidnapping, Violence, Drug abuse, Drug use, Animal death, Genocide, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, Medical content, Racism, Rape, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Cursing, Death of parent, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Torture, Child abuse, Gun violence, and Hate crime

lilanye's review

I found the writing overwhelming and a little too complicated for a book that is supposed to share info for the masses about the US atrocities. I also didn’t feel like I gained much extra knowledge from reading it so in the end it just isn’t worth the trouble. It did not meet expectations! Bye!