What Every Person Should Know About War
New York : Free Press, 2003.
Format: Book
Edition: First Free Press trade paperback edition.
Description: xvi, 175 pages ; 21 cm
"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."-- Provided by Publisher.
Contents:
Introduction -- War 101 -- Enlistment -- Life in war -- Weapons and wounds -- Weapons of mass destruction -- The moment of combat -- Imprisonment, torture, and rape -- Dying -- After the war -- Notes.
Subjects:
War -- Miscellanea.
Armed Forces -- Miscellanea.
Weapons systems -- Miscellanea.
Combat -- Miscellanea.
United States -- Armed Forces -- Miscellanea.
War -- Miscellanea.
Armed Forces -- Miscellanea.
Weapons systems -- Miscellanea.
Combat -- Miscellanea.
United States -- Armed Forces -- Miscellanea.
ISBN:
0743255127
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HISTORY War Hed | Ballentine Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.