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A Story of War and the Life That Follows
by Brian Castner
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Published Apr 2017
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by Mary Doria Russell
Published Feb 2016
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by David Finkel
Published Sep 2014
Read ReviewsThank You for Your Service is an act of understanding - shocking but always riveting, unflinching but deeply humane, it takes us inside the heads of those who must live the rest of their lives with the chilling realities of war.
by Kevin Powers
Published Apr 2013
Read ReviewsWith profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic.
by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
Published Mar 2013
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by Daniel Woodrell
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by David Abrams
Published Sep 2012
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by Karl Marlantes
Published May 2011
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by Ishmael Beah
Published Aug 2008
Read ReviewsThe devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, hed been picked up by the government army, and became a soldier.
by Michael Weisskopf
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsMichael Weisskopf, a journalist, was riding through Baghdad with a US Army patrol when they were attacked and his hand was destoyed by a grenade. This book is the story of his treatment and rehabilitation as an amputee, and the stories of the three soldiers who recovered alongside him.
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