Voices of the Iraq War: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life

by Brian L. Steed (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781440836756
Publisher:	ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/11/2016
Series:	Voices of an Era
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	610 KB

About the Author

Brian L. Steed is a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and a military history instructor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College as well as a Middle East foreign area officer.