Tomas Young's War

List of contents

Chapter 1 – Growing Up 10
Chapter 2 – 9/11 & Beyond 16
Chapter 3 – Shipping Out / Black Sunday 27
Chapter 4 – April 2013: 112 N. 113th Street, Kansas City 41
Chapter 5 – Mom Gets the News / Waking Up at Walter Reed 53
Chapter 6 – Back Home 68
Chapter 7 – Purpose / Body of War Filming 78
Chapter 8 – May 2013: A Tribute to Tomas / A Glimmer of Hope 100
Chapter 9 – Living Solo / Activism / Body of War Rollout 120
Chapter 10 – Clot / Embolism / Claudia 141
Chapter 11 – Gut Pain / Darkness 160
Chapter 12 – Deciding to Die 172
Chapter 13 – Letting Go / Embracing Life 188
Chapter 14 – April 2014: A Visit to Portland 205
Epilogue 221
References 225

About the author

Mark Wilkerson spent eight years in the U.S. Army as an AH-1 Cobra & UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crew chief with the 3rd Infantry & 101st Airborne Divisions. He was deployed with the 101st to Mogadishu, Somalia, for six months in 1993. Mark has three children, Alex, Nick and Sam. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky with his wife Melissa.

Summary

An Iraqi war veteran's powerful testament to the true cost of war.

Foreword

Galleys Available

Phil Donahue will help promote the book.

Blurbs forthcoming from: Cornel West, Eddie Vedder, Sean Penn, Tom Morello, Ralph Nader, Chris Hedges, and others

We will build off of the momentum generated by "Body of War" a National Board of Review winning documentary produced by Phil Donahue about Tomas Young's life.

National Print Campaign: Will send advance copies to NY Times, SF Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Mother Jones, The Nation, Washington Post, Wall St. Journal, Associated Press, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, as well as trade publications Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and Foreword Reviews

National TV & Radio Campaign: MSNBC, PBS Newshour, Democracy Now!, C-SPAN BookTV, The Daily Show, Real Time w/ Bill Maher, Tavis Smiley, David Sirota Progressive Talk, GRIT TV, NPR

Online and Social Media Campaign: Haymarket Books has 13k FB fans, 8k Twitter followers. Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder is close with the author and invested in the book and will write a blurb, support launch event. Vedder has 2M Facebook fans.

Published on April 4th to coincide with 12th anniversary of Tomas Young's injury in Iraq.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Wilkerson, Mark Wilkerson, Wilkerson Mark
• Assisted by: Phil Donahue (Foreword), Donahue Phil (Foreword)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2016
• EAN: 9781608465910
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-591-0
• Weight: 426 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Middle East / Iraq, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Middle Eastern history, Iraq, Modern warfare, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, Biography: historical, political and military, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Iraq War, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Arab & Middle Eastern