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From the author of The Perfect Storm a gripping book about Sebastian Junger's almost-fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army. They were known as "The Rock." For one year in 2007-2008 Sebastian Junger accompanied a single platoon of thirty men from the storied 2nd battalion of the U.S. Army as they fought their way through a remote valley in Eastern Afghanistan. Over the course of five trips Junger was in more firefights than he can count men he knew were killed or wounded and he himself was almost killed. His relationship with these soldiers grew so close that they considered him part of the platoon and he enjoyed an access and a candidness that few if any journalists ever attain. War is a narrative about combat: the fear of dying the trauma of killing and the … read more...love between platoon-mates who would rather die than let each other down. Gripping honest intense War explores the neurological psychological and social elements of combat and the incredible bonds that form between these small groups of men. This is not a book about Afghanistan or the 'War on Terror'; it is a book about the universal truth of all men in all wars.Junger set out to answer what he thought of as the 'hand grenade question': why would a man throw himself on a hand grenade to save other men he has probably known for only a few months? The answer elusive but profound and goes to the heart of what it means not just to be a soldier but to be human.Read More read less...
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War : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers : 9780007337712 : 000733771X : 12 May 2011 : From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger's almost fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army.
- 000733771X
- 9780007337712
- Sebastian Junger
- 1 May 2011
- Fourth Estate (GB)
- Paperback (Book)
- 312
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