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Univ of California Pr
March 2010
On Sale: March 1, 2010
288 pages
ISBN: 0520266048
EAN: 9780520266049
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Non-Fiction
The War Comes Home is the first book to systematically
document the U.S. government's neglect of soldiers returning
from Iraq and Afghanistan. Aaron Glantz, who reported
extensively from Iraq during the first three years of this
war and has been reporting on the plight of veterans ever
since, levels a devastating indictment against the Bush
administration for its bald neglect of soldiers and its
disingenuous reneging on their benefits. Glantz interviewed
more than one hundred recent war veterans, and here he
intersperses their haunting first-person accounts with
investigations into specific concerns, such as the scandal
at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. This timely book
does more than provide us with a personal connection to
those whose service has cost them so dearly. It compels us
to confront how America treats its veterans and to consider
what kind of nation deifies its soldiers and then casts them
off as damaged goods.
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