War

Name: War
Author: Sebastian Junger
ISBN: 9781554685554

Sebastian Junger

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War

Sebastian Junger

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Over fifteen months, Sebastian Junger followed a single platoon based at a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan. His objective was both simple and ambitious: to convey what soldiers experience--what war actually feels like. In these pages, he gives insight into the truths of combat: the fear, the honour and the trust among men. He describes things that few civilians will ever witness or go through--the endless, body-numbing anticipation of battle; the adrenaline-fueled confusion of being ambushed; the unquestioned and automatic risks soldiers take in combat situations to protect their brothers. Junger shows what it means to fight, to serve and to face down mortal danger on a constant basis. Throughout, War illuminates the lives of the men who fight for us--how they live; what they see and learn and feel. Junger draws on biology, psychology and military history to explain the decisions soldiers make and to put their ordeals into context. In the vivid prose for which he has become known, he relates the physical toil, the suffocating heat, the sounds of gunfire and the agony of loss.

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