| Description |
205 pages ; 22 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The greatest evil is war -- Chronicle of a war foretold -- Worthy and unworthy victims -- The pimps of war -- The act of killing -- The soldier's tale -- Existential crisis -- Corpses -- When the bodies come home -- Wounds that never heal -- Shadows of war -- War as myth -- War memorials -- The golden age of heroes -- Orphans -- Permanent war. |
| Summary |
"In fifteen short chapters, Chris Hedges astonishes us with his clear and cogent argument against war, not on philosophical grounds or through moral arguments, but in an irrefutable stream of personal encounters with the victims of war, from veterans and parents to gravely wounded American serviceman who served in the Iraq War, to survivors of the Holocaust, to soldiers in the Falklands War, among others. Hedges reported from Sarajevo, and was in the Balkans to witness the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 2002 he published War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, which the Los Angeles Times described as "the best kind of war journalism ... bitterly poetic and ruthlessly philosophical" and the New York Times called "a brilliant, thoughtful, timely, and unsettling book." In the twenty years since, Hedges has not wanted to write another book on the subject of war-until now, with the outbreak of war in Ukraine. It is important again to be reminded who are the victors of the spoils of war and of other unerring truths, not only in this war but in all modern wars, where civilians are always the main victims, and the tools and methods of war are capable of so much destruction it boggles the mind. This book is an unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by one of our finest war correspondents"-- Provided by publisher |
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War -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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War (Philosophy)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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War -- Moral and ethical aspects
(OCoLC)fst01170352
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War (Philosophy) (OCoLC)fst01170420
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| ISBN |
9781644212936 hardcover |
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1644212935 hardcover |
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9781644213315 (paperback) |
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1644213311 (paperback) |
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