An unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by one of
our finest war correspondents.
Drawn from experience and interviews by Pulitzer-prize-winner Chris
Hedges, this book looks at the hidden costs of war, what it does to
individuals, families, communities and nations.
In fifteen short chapters, Chris Hedges astonishes us with his clear and
cogent argument against war, not on philosophical grounds or through
moral arguments, but in an irrefutable stream of personal encounters
with the victims of war, from veterans and parents to gravely wounded
American serviceman who served in the Iraq War, to survivors of the
Holocaust, to soldiers in the Falklands War, among others. Hedges
reported from Sarajevo, and was in the Balkans to witness the collapse
of the Soviet Union.
In 2002 he published War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, which the
Los Angeles Times described as "the best kind of war journalism...
bitterly poetic and ruthlessly philosophical" and the New York Times
called "a brilliant, thoughtful, timely, and unsettling book." In the
twenty years since, Hedges has not wanted to write another book on the
subject of war--until now, with the outbreak of war in Ukraine. It is
important again to be reminded who are the victors of the spoils of war
and of other unerring truths, not only in this war but in all modern
wars, where civilians are always the main victims, and the tools and
methods of war are capable of so much destruction it boggles the mind.
This book is an unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of
war by one of our finest war correspondents.
