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June 2003
On Sale: June 9, 2003
192 pages
ISBN: 0743255127
EAN: 9780743255127
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Non-Fiction
Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris
Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the
dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects
of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma,
this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description,
and a spare question-and-answer format. Hedges allows U.S.
military documentation of the brutalizing physical and
psychological consequences of combat to speak for
itself. Hedges poses dozens of questions that young
soldiers might ask about combat, and then answers them by
quoting from medical and psychological
studies. ? What are my chances of being
wounded or killed if we go to war?? What does it feel
like to get shot? ? What do artillery shells do to
you? ? What is the most painful way to get wounded? ?
Will I be afraid? ? What could happen to me in a nuclear
attack? ? What does it feel like to kill someone? ? Can
I withstand torture? ? What are the long-term consequences
of combat stress? ? What will happen to my body after I
die? This profound and devastating portrayal
of the horrors to which we subject our armed forces stands
as a ringing indictment of the glorification of war and the
concealment of its barbarity.
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