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The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away from the War in Iraq
Atlantic Monthly Press
January 2007
On Sale: January 15, 2007
256 pages
ISBN: 0871139545
EAN: 9780871139542
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In the first ever memoir from a young soldier who deserted
from the war in Iraq, Joshua Key offers a vivid and damning
indictment of what we are doing there and how the war itself
is being waged. Key, a young husband and father from a
conservative background, enlisted in the Army in 2002 to get
training as a welder and lift his family out of poverty. A
year later, Key was sent to Ramadi where he found himself
participating in a war that was not the campaign against
terrorists and evildoers he had expected. He saw Iraqi
civilians beaten, shot, and killed for little or no
provocation. Nearly ever other night, he participated in
raids on homes that found only terrified families and no
evidence of terrorist activity. On leave, Key knew he could
not return so he took his family underground, finally
seeking asylum in Canada. The Deserter’s Tale is the story
of a patriotic family man who went to war believing
unquestioningly in his government’s commitment to integrity
and justice, and how what he saw in Iraq transformed him
into someone who could no longer serve his country.
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