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The Things They Cannot Say. Stories Soldiers Won't Tell You About What They've Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War.
Kevin Sites
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Description for The Things They Cannot Say. Stories Soldiers Won't Tell You About What They've Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War.
Paperback. What is it like to kill? What is it like to be under fire? How do you know what's right? What can you never forget? The author asks the difficult questions of these combatants, many of whom he first met while in Afghanistan and Iraq and others he sought out from different wars. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 136 x 20. Weight in Grams: 264.
Award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites asks the difficult questions of these combatants, many of whom he first met while in Afghanistan and Iraq and others he sought out from different wars: What is it like to kill? What is it like to be under fire? How do you know what's right? What can you never forget? Sites compiles the accounts of soldiers, Marines, their families and friends, and also shares the unsettling narrative of his own failures during war (including complicity in a murder) and the redemptive powers of storytelling in arresting a spiraling path of self-destruction. He learns ... Read more
Award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites asks the difficult questions of these combatants, many of whom he first met while in Afghanistan and Iraq and others he sought out from different wars: What is it like to kill? What is it like to be under fire? How do you know what's right? What can you never forget? Sites compiles the accounts of soldiers, Marines, their families and friends, and also shares the unsettling narrative of his own failures during war (including complicity in a murder) and the redemptive powers of storytelling in arresting a spiraling path of self-destruction. He learns ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780061990526
SKU
V9780061990526
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About Kevin Sites
Kevin Sites has spent more than a decade covering wars and conflicts for ABC, NBC, CNN, Yahoo! News, and Vice magazine. He is the author of In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars and The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won't Tell You About What They've Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War. He is ... Read more
Reviews for The Things They Cannot Say. Stories Soldiers Won't Tell You About What They've Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War.
"Sites highlights the importance of treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and sharing stories. Most importantly, he forces readers, those average civilians, to look at what war does to people and think about whether it's always worth it."
San Francisco Chronicle "The harrowing accounts detail the experiencesof 11 US soldiers and Marines who have been ravaged by modern warfare and ... Read more
San Francisco Chronicle "The harrowing accounts detail the experiencesof 11 US soldiers and Marines who have been ravaged by modern warfare and ... Read more