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Author Eide, Marian, author

Title After combat : true war stories from Iraq and Afghanistan / Marian Eide and Michael Gibler
Published [Lincoln, Neb.] : Potomac Books, An imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2018]

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Contents Enlist/commission -- Mission -- Every other day -- In country -- The best job I ever had -- Explosion -- Low points -- Close call -- Combat -- Comrades -- Chain of command -- Did you kill anyone -- Enemies -- Homecoming -- Loss -- Nostalgia -- Struggling -- Thank you for your service -- War stories -- "Why are we so out of synch with the civilian population that we, in theory, serve?"
Summary "After Combat introduces readers to the wars fought by Millennials from the perspective of the combatants. Told by veterans, After Combat narrates what Tim O'Brien calls a "true war story:" one without obvious purpose or moral imputation, independent of civilian logic, propaganda goals, and even peacetime convention"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Veterans -- United States -- Biography
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Veterans -- United States
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Veterans -- United States
HISTORY -- Asia -- Central Asia.
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
HISTORY -- Military -- Iraq War (2003- )
Veterans
Iraq
United States
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Gibler, Michael, author
ISBN 9781640121089
1640121080