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Voices of the Iraq War: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life

Voices of the Iraq War: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life

Steed, Brian
Steed, Brian

Hardcover

Series: Voices of an Era

Iraq War (2003-2011)

ISBN10: 1440836744
ISBN13: 9781440836749
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: Apr 11 2016
Pages: 330
Weight: 2.30
Height: 0.75 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

The Iraq War (2003-2011) was the most significant conflict in the early 21st century. This book examines the ongoing importance of this war for the Middle East and the world today through first-person accounts of the war and primary source documents.

Voices of the Iraq War: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life illuminates the complex and poorly reported realities of the conflict that those without direct experience cannot possibly fathom, presenting detailed personal accounts of what the conflict in Iraq was like across multiple disciplines and through a variety of viewpoints. The accounts are based on interviews with American, Iraqi-American, and British officers who deployed and fought throughout the country of Iraq.

The book begins with the story of an Iraqi boy who flees Iraq with his family after Desert Storm and then returns to Iraq as a translator to assist U.S. forces nearly 16 years later. The book is filled with personal accounts of combat and training as well as other real-world experiences that define what the Iraq War meant to thousands of U.S. and allied service members. These personal accounts are supported with national level policy speeches and official statements that help readers put the individual stories and events in national, regional, and global perspective. The book concludes by examining the impact of this war on thousands of young men and women that will last for decades to come.

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