“Read this unsparing, scathingly direct, and gut-wrenching account
— the war Washington doesn’t want you to see. Then see if you still
believe that Americans ‘support the troops.’” —Andrew J.
Bacevich, author of Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their
Soldiers and Their Country
“An indispensable book about America’s current wars and the
multiple ways they continue to wound not only the soldiers but
their families and indeed the country itself. Jones writes with
passion and clarity about the tragedies other reporters avoid and
evade.” —Marilyn Young, author of The Vietnam Wars,
1945–1990
"For a decade, Jones, through her firsthand reporting of war and
life on the ground in Afghanistan, has given us more of the reality
of that conflict than any dozen of her well-connected colleagues in
the established media, attuned as they have been to the cant and
spin pouring out of official mouths. Now, she has turned her
shrewd, wise, compassionate, reality-bound eye to some of the
bitterest facts of all: the almost unimaginable suffering of the
American soldiers wounded and otherwise impaired in the conflict.
The result is a harrowing and compelling tale that is hard to bear
but must be borne if we are understand the disaster this country
unleashed in Afghanistan." —Jonathan Schell author of The
Unconquerable World
“This is a painful odyssey. Ann Jones’s superb writing makes it
possible to take it in without sugar coating.… Read this book. You
will be a wiser and better citizen.” —Jonathan Shay, MD, PhD,
author of Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of
Homecoming
“Ann Jones' new book, They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return
from America's Wars -- The Untold Story, is devastating, and almost
incomprehensibly so when one considers that virtually all of the
death and destruction in U.S. wars is on the other side.
Statistically, what happens to U.S. troops is almost nothing. In
human terms, it's overwhelming. Know a young person considering
joining the military? Give them this book. Know a person not
working to end war? Give them this book.” —David Swanson
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