Un-American : a soldier's reckoning of our longest war
Edstrom, Erik2020
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Erik Edstrom grew up in suburban Massachusetts with an idealistic desire to make an impact, ultimately leading him to the gates of West Point. Five years later, he was deployed to Afghanistan as an infantry lieutenant. Throughout his military career, he confronted atrocities, buried his friends, wrestled with depression, and struggled with an understanding that the war he fought in, and the youth he traded to prepare for it, was in contribution to a bitter truth: The War on Terror is not just a tragedy, but a crime. The deeper tragedy is that our country lacks the courage and conviction to say so. 'Un-American' is a hybrid of social commentary and memoir that exposes how blind support for war exacerbates the problems it's intended to resolve, devastates the people allegedly being helped, and diverts assets from far larger threats like climate change.
Main title:
Un-American : a soldier's reckoning of our longest war / Erik Edstrom.
Author:
Edstrom, Erik, author
Imprint:
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
Collation:
290 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781635573749 (hbk. :)
Language:
English
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BRN:
1920186
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