After Combat - True War Stories From Iraq and Afghanistan

Informationen zum Autor Marian Eide is a professor of English at Texas A&M University. Her research and teaching address twentieth-century and contemporary narrative with a particular focus on ethics and war. She is the author of Ethical Joyce. Michael Gibler is a retired colonel and served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army for twenty-eight years and is now an assistant professor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. His assignments included airborne, air assault, and light and Stryker infantry units; he participated in Operation Just Cause, Operation Desert Shield/Storm, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Klappentext After Combat introduces readers to the wars fought by military forces from the perspective of the combatants. Veterans narrate 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. Zusammenfassung This After Combat introduces readers to the wars fought by military forces from the perspective of the combatants. Veterans narrate 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments                                                 Introduction                                                                                                                1. Enlist/Commission                                                                                                              2. Mission                                                                                                                                3. Every Other Day                                                                                                                 4. In Country                                                                                                                           5. The Best Job I Ever Had                                                                                                    6. Explosion                                                                                                                            7. Low Points                                                                                                                          8. Close Call                                                                                                                            9. Combat                                                                                                                               10. Comrades                                                                                                                          11. Chain of Command                                                                                                          12. Did You Kill Anyone?                                                                                                      13. Enemies                                                                                                                             14. Homecoming                                                                                                                     15. Loss                                                                                                                                   16. Nostalgia                                                                                                                           17. Struggling                                                                                                                         18. Thank You for Your Service                                                                                            19. True War Stories                                                        ...

Product details

• Authors: Marian Eide, Marian Gibler Eide, Marian/ Gibler Eide, Michael Gibler
• Publisher: Potomac Books Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781640120235
• ISBN: 978-1-64012-023-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous