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"After serving in Iraq as an officer in the U.S. Marines, Klay returned home to produce two exceptional pieces of fiction shaped by his experience of war: the National Book Award-winning story collection Redeployment and the debut novel Missionaries, best-booked by the Wall Street Journal. Here he collects essays written over the past decade that explore what the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have really meant to the people of the United States, for...
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Fifteen original essays from American veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan offer first-hand perspectives on what made America's post-9/ 11 wars such costly and misguided exercises in futility, documenting how the world's self-proclaimed greatest military power went so badly astray.