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Chris Boot
November 2010
On Sale: October 31, 2010
240 pages ISBN: 1905712189 EAN: 9781905712182 Paperback
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Non-Fiction
Infidel is an intimate portrait of a single U.S.
platoon, assigned to an outpost in the Korengal Valley-an
area considered one of the most dangerous Afghan postings in
the war against the Taliban-but it is as much about love and
male vulnerability as it is about bravery and war. Embedded with writer Sebastian Junger, and shooting over the
course of one year, photographer Tim Hetherington made a
series of images that prove surprisingly tender in their
depiction of camaraderie and vulnerability (among the most
moving is a series of the platoon sleeping). Alongside revealing interviews with Hetherington's subjects
and an introduction by Junger (with whom Hetherington
co-directed the award-winning film Restrepo, about
the work of the battalion), the book is also illustrated
with graphics of the tattoos the soldiers gave each other in
the camp. The title Infidel is taken from the tattoo
the men adopted as a badge of their comradeship. Warm, moving and full of humor, this book is a tribute to
the "rough men ready to do violence on our behalf" and a
provocative contribution to the documentation of war in our
time.
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