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ferdy_goat's review against another edition
4.0
A harrowing account of the systematic American war crimes in Vietnam.
The genocidal devastation of the US mission in Vietnam and the ways in which the command structure encouraged and covered up massacres several degrees worse than the infamous My Lai.
If anything this book suffers from its thoroughness. It becomes a slog to read through page after page of massacres. But if you can stomach it, I highly recommend for anyone that has any doubt whether we were the bad guys in Vietnam or not.
The genocidal devastation of the US mission in Vietnam and the ways in which the command structure encouraged and covered up massacres several degrees worse than the infamous My Lai.
If anything this book suffers from its thoroughness. It becomes a slog to read through page after page of massacres. But if you can stomach it, I highly recommend for anyone that has any doubt whether we were the bad guys in Vietnam or not.
sunshinemilk's review against another edition
4.0
a haunting look at the racism, brutality, and extreme violence/genocide that the American military carried out. unfortunately this is not unique.
thisroundsonme's review
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
5.0
I think this book should be required reading for college. Wars are often forgotten history as governments try to make themselves look better. This is one the better nonfiction books I’ve read.
liedora's review against another edition
3.0
Dark, disturbing and definitely makes you think. Apart for those few words I really don't feel there is anyway I could write a review on this book that, at some point didn't venture into the political realms of the Officer class in our Armed Forces.
zzt's review against another edition
5.0
As with all books of this genre, it is a disturbing read because it is true, well reported, something so many of us lived through.
Worse, we hear these stories repeated in Afghanistan, Iraq, Ethiopia and many other nations where the west claims to be forging a peace
There is a further extrapolation that can be made into the worlds of business and global and national politics and that is that our leaders are little different from those that encouraged abuses then and covered up the results of their crimes.
From mass murder to mass corporate theft, to the manipulation of the truth and reality in the media, we face the same threat to our democracy from those who lack the courage to own up to what they have done
Worse, we hear these stories repeated in Afghanistan, Iraq, Ethiopia and many other nations where the west claims to be forging a peace
There is a further extrapolation that can be made into the worlds of business and global and national politics and that is that our leaders are little different from those that encouraged abuses then and covered up the results of their crimes.
From mass murder to mass corporate theft, to the manipulation of the truth and reality in the media, we face the same threat to our democracy from those who lack the courage to own up to what they have done
jehignite's review against another edition
5.0
Every American should read this to avoid refusing to remember our culpability in the genocide that is called the “Vietnam War”