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What Every Person Should Know about War
Contributor(s): Hedges, Chris (Author), Anfuso, Dominick (Editor)

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ISBN: 0743255127     ISBN-13: 9780743255127
Publisher: Free Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2009
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Annotation: Acclaimed "New York Times" journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Hedges allows U.S. military documentation of the brutalizing physical and psychological consequences of combat to speak for itself.

Hedges poses dozens of questions that young soldiers might ask about combat, and then answers them by quoting from medical and psychological studies.

- What are my chances of being wounded or killed if we go to war?

- What does it feel like to get shot?

- What do artillery shells do to you?

- What is the most painful way to get wounded?

- Will I be afraid?

- What could happen to me in a nuclear attack?

- What does it feel like to kill someone?

- Can I withstand torture?

- What are the long-term consequences of combat stress?

- What will happen to my body after I die?

This profound and devastating portrayal of the horrors to which we subject our armed forces stands as a ringing indictment of the glorification of war and the concealment of its barbarity.


Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Security (national & International)
- History | Military - United States
- History | Modern - 21st Century
Dewey: 355.009
LCCN: 2003049121
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.3" W x 8" L (0.50 lbs) 192 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product
Review Citations: New York Times 07/06/2003 pg. 9
New York Times 12/07/2003 pg. 83
Publishers Weekly 06/01/2003
Library Journal 06/01/2003
 
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Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Hedges allows U.S. military documentation of the brutalizing physical and psychological consequences of combat to speak for itself. Hedges poses dozens of questions that young soldiers might ask about combat, and then answers them by quoting from medical and psychological studies. - What are my chances of being wounded or killed if we go to war? - What does it feel like to get shot? - What do artillery shells do to you? - What is the most painful way to get wounded? - Will I be afraid? - What could happen to me in a nuclear attack? - What does it feel like to kill someone? - Can I withstand torture? - What are the long-term consequences of combat stress? - What will happen to my body after I die? This profound and devastating portrayal of the horrors to which we subject our armed forces stands as a ringing indictment of the glorification of war and the concealment of its barbarity.

Contributor Bio(s): Hedges, Chris: - Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He writes a weekly column for the online magazine Truthdig out of Los Angeles and is host of the Emmy Award--winning RT America show On Contact. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University, is the author of the bestsellers American Fascists, Days of Destruction-, Days of Revolt, and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Toronto. He currently teaches college credit courses in the New Jersey prison system.
 
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