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A reporter's firsthand, close-up-and-personal look at the impact of our recent wars on America's unlucky soldiers.

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9781608463718

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Read this unsparing, scathingly direct, and gut-wrenching account -- the war Washington doesn't want you to see. Then see if you still believe that Americans 'support the troops.' --Andrew J. Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country Read this book. --Jonathan Shay An indispensable book about America's current wars and the multiple ways they continue to wound not only the soldiers but their families and indeed the country itself. Jones writes with passion and clarity about the tragedies other reporters avoid and evade. --Marilyn Young, The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990 For a decade, Jones, through her firsthand reporting of war and life on the ground in Afghanistan, given us more of the reality of that conflict than any dozen of her well-connected colleagues in the established media, attuned as they have been to the can't and spin pouring out of official mouths. Now, she has turned her shrewd, wise, compassionate, reality-bound eye to some of the bitterest facts of all: the almost unimaginable suffering of the American soldiers wounded and otherwise impaired in the conflict. The result is a harrowing and compelling tale that is hard to bear but must be borne if we are understand the disaster this country unleashed in Afghanistan. --Jonathan Schell author of The Unconquerable World

Read this unsparing, scathingly direct, and gut-wrenching account -- the war Washington doesn't want you to see. Then see if you still believe that Americans 'support the troops.' --Andrew J. Bacevich, Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country An indispensable book about America's current wars and the multiple ways they continue to wound not only the soldiers but their families and indeed the country itself. Jones writes with passion and clarity about the tragedies other reporters avoid and evade. --Marilyn Young, The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990 For a decade, Jones, through her firsthand reporting of war and life on the ground in Afghanistan, given us more of the reality of that conflict than any dozen of her well-connected colleagues in the established media, attuned as they have been to the can't and spin pouring out of official mouths. Now, she has turned her shrewd, wise, compassionate, reality-bound eye to some of the bitterest facts of all: the almost unimaginable suffering of the American soldiers wounded and otherwise impaired in the conflict. The result is a harrowing and compelling tale that is hard to bear but must be borne if we are understand the disaster this country unleashed in Afghanistan. --Jonathan Schell author of The Unconquerable World

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