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Collateral Damage : America's War Against Iraqi Civilians Hardcov

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Publication Name
PublicAffairs
ISBN
9781568583730

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Public Affairs
ISBN-10
1568583737
ISBN-13
9781568583730
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60222307

Product Key Features

Book Title
Collateral Damage : America's War Against Iraqi Civilians
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
Military / Iraq War (2003-2011), United States / 21st Century
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Author
Chris Hedges, Laila Al-Arian
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
9.5 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-009941
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Bitterly poetic and ruthlessly philosophical....A powerful message to people contemplating the escalation of the war against terrorism., A brilliant, thoughtful, timely and unsettling book.... Abounds with Hedges' harrowing and terribly moving eyewitness accounts.... Powerful and informative.
Photographed by
Richards, Eugene
Dewey Decimal
956.7044/31
Synopsis
Best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and journalist Laila Al-Arian spent the past year interviewing over fifty veterans to expose the patterns of the occupation in Iraq. The testimonies of these soldiers--many of who remain deeply traumatized by their experiences--uncover how the very conduct of the war and occupation have turned the American forces into agents of terror for most Iraqis. Collateral Damage is organized around key military operations--Convoys, Checkpoints, Detentions, Raids, Suppressive Fire, and "Hearts and Minds." Military convoys traveling at tremendous speeds through towns have become trains of death. Civilians are routinely run over or shot to death. Soldiers fire upon Iraqi vehicles with impunity at checkpoints. Late-night detentions based on shoddy intelligence terrify women, traumatize children, and radicalize the young men caught in their dragnet. These soldiers have found the moral courage to speak out about the true nature of a war that has become one long, unchecked atrocity, and has given rise to the instability, sectarian violence and chaos that we witness today in Iraq., Best-selling author and Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and journalist Laila al-Arian spent several months interviewing Iraqi war veterans to expose the patterns of the occupation and how it affects Iraqi civilians. The testimonies of these soldiers and Marines provide a disturbing window into the indiscriminate killing of unarmed and innocent Iraqis that is carried out daily by the occupation forces. "Collateral Damage" is organized around key military operations on the battlefield -- Convoys, Checkpoints, Detentions, Raids, Suppressive Fire, and "Hearts and Minds." Hedges and Al-Arian uncover how the very conduct of the war and occupation have turned the American forces into agents of terror for most Iraqis. The military convoys that speed through the centers of towns, often driving on the wrong side of the street or on sidewalks, have become trains of death. Soldiers fire upon Iraqi vehicles with impunity at checkpoints; pregnant women being rushed to hospital have been killed at roadblocks when their husbands failed to slow down and children have watched in horror as their parents have been killed. Hedges and Al-Arian show how this widespread pattern of civilian killing has fueled the insurgency in Iraq, giving rise to instability, sectarian violence, and total chaos., Best-selling author and Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and journalist Laila Al-Arian spent several months interviewing returning Iraqi war veterans to expose the patterns of the occupation and how it affects Iraqi civilians. The testimonies of these soldiers and traumatized by their experiences in Iraq, provide a disturbing window into the indiscriminate killing that is carried out daily by the occupation forces of unarmed and innocent Iraqis. Collateral Damage is organized around key military operations on the battlefield--Convoys, Checkpoints, Detentions, Raids, Suppressive Fire, and "Hearts and Minds." Hedges and Al-Arian uncover how the very conduct of the war and occupation have turned the American forces into agents of terror for most Iraqis. The military convoys that travel at tremendous speeds through the centers of towns, often driving on the wrong side of the street or on sidewalks, have become trains of death. Civilians are routinely run over or shot to death. Soldiers fire upon Iraqi vehicles with impunity at checkpoints; pregnant women being rushed to the hospital have been killed at roadblocks when their husbands failed to slow down and children have watched in horror as their parents have been wounded or killed. Hedges and Al-Arian show how this widespread pattern of civilian killing has fueled the insurgeney in Iraq, giving rise to instability, sectarian violence, and total chaos., Collateral Damage brings together testimony from the largest number of on the record, named, combat veterans who reveal the disturbing, daily reality of war and occupation in Iraq. Through their eyes, we learn how the mechanics of war lead to the abuse and frequent killing of innocents. They describe convoys of vehicles roaring down roads, smashing into cars, and hitting Iraqi civilians. They detail raids that leave families shot dead in the mayhem. And they describe a battlefield in which troops, untrained to distinguish between combatants and civilians, are authorized to shoot whenever they feel threatened., The first account of the war in Iraq, as told by returned veterans, that gives a disturbing insight into the indiscriminate killing that is carried out on unarmed and innocent Iraqis.
LC Classification Number
DS79.76.H45 2008

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