Redeployment: National Book Award Winner, (Paperback)

from novelcommentary

2014's National Book Award winner certainly deserved the recognition. Klay's book of short stories explored, with various narrators and scenarios, some the horrors, atrocities, irony and confusion that our soldiers faced serving in the Iraqi war. I loved Tim O'Brian's book The Things They Carried...

from nivramkoorb

If you have no experience with the military or with war, then you can distance yourself from our military involvements in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book brings the experience to your front door. It should be read by anyone who can casually suggest and support sending soldiers into combat. The to...

from squealermusic

A great book. Sent me into a rage at several points thinking about American hubris

from jnwelch

When Fujita's squad approached the battle cross, they knelt close together, their arms over one another's shoulders, leaning into each other until it was one silent, weeping block. Geared up, Marines are terrifying warriors. In grief, they look like children. Then one by one they stood up, touche...

from porch_reader

I became aware of this book when it won the National Book Award. I knew it was about the Iraq War and that, like all war fiction, some of the subject matter was bound to be difficult. But as a small body of fiction about the Iraq War emerges, it seems important to bear witness to this event. As D...