The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won't Tell You About What They've Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War - Softcover

Sites, Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061990523 ISBN 13: 9780061990526

Publisher: HarpPeren, 2013

Synopsis

Award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites asks the difficult questions of these combatants, many of whom he first met while in Afghanistan and Iraq and others he sought out from different wars: What is it like to kill? What is it like to be under fire? How do you know what's right? What can you never forget? Sites compiles the accounts of soldiers, Marines, their families and friends, and also shares the unsettling narrative of his own failures during war (including complicity in a murder) and the redemptive powers of storytelling in arresting a spiraling path of self-destruction. He learns that war both gives and takes from those most intimately involved in it. Some struggle in perpetual disequilibrium, while others find balance, usually with the help of communities who have learned to listen, without judgment, to the real stories of the men and women it has sent to fight its battles.

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Review:

"In sensitive, honest prose, the author emphasizes that this is a book about hope. An important book for warriors and the communities that send them to war." --Kirkus Reviews

About the Author:

Kevin Sites has spent the past decade reporting on global war and disaster for ABC, NBC, CNN, and Yahoo! News. In 2005, he became Yahoo!'s first correspondent and covered every major conflict in the world in a single year for his website, Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone. He is a recipient of the 2006 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism and was chosen as a Harvard University Nieman Journalism Fellow in 2010.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarpPeren
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0061990523
• ISBN 13: 9780061990526
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336