The amount of times I would read a paragraph and think “if this was written today, it would still be true” was to damn high. Especially the entire last chapter.
The amount of times I would read a paragraph and think “if this was written today, it would still be true” was to damn high. Especially the entire last chapter.
Seconding the suggestion of The Jarkarta Method by Vincent Bevins.
I’d also recommend Kill Anything That Moves by Nick Turse. It’s about official US armed forces policy that they literally “kill anything that moves” during the Vietnam War. There’s an interview with a soldier in the book where he says that the My Lai Massacre wasn’t an anomaly, it was just the one that people found out about back home, and that really there was a My Lai happening every month.
I listened to both of these as audiobooks. Which was odd for me, while I like audiobooks they don’t make up much of my reading time in a given year, and I’ve never before listened to nonfiction. But I didn’t regret it. Kill Anything That Moves has been uploaded to YouTube.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The more I learn about Vietnam, the more I think it should be required education for middle / highschool students.