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Cover of Guys Like Me: Five Wars, Five Veterans for Peace
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Michael A. Messner
“Men, masculinity, and militarism are so often seen to be in such close (and mythically heroic) correspondence, the war veteran-as-peace-advocate is sometimes viewed as an…
Cover of The Other Americans
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Laila Lalami
“From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Moor’s Account–a timely and powerful new novel about the suspicious death of a Moroccan immigrant that is at once a family saga, a…
Cover of Unbecoming: A Memoir
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Anuradha Kristina Bhagwati
“A raw, unflinching, and inspirational memoir by a former United States Marine Captain describing her journey from dutiful daughter of immigrants to wide-eyed recruit to radical…
Cover of After Combat: True War Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan
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Marian Eide, Michael Gibler
“Approximately 2.5 million men and women have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan in the service of the U.S. War on Terror. Marian Eide and Michael Gibler have collected and compiled…
Cover of Meet Me Halfway: Milwaukee Stories
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Jennifer Morales
“When Johnquell, an African American teen, suffers a serious accident in the home of his white neighbor, Mrs. Czernicki, his community must find ways to bridge divisions between…
Cover of Redeployment
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Phil Klay
“Phil Klay’s Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who…
Cover of Thank You for Your Service
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David Finkel
“No journalist has reckoned with the psychology of war as intimately as David Finkel. In The Good Soldiers, his bestselling account from the front lines of Baghdad, Finkel…
Cover of Home
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Toni Morrison
“When Frank Money joined the army to escape his too-small world, he left behind his cherished and fragile little sister, Cee. After the war, he journeys to his native Georgia with…
Cover of My Queer War
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James Lord
“A noted memoirist relates his time serving in World War II, during which he experienced the terrors of armed conflict, as well as came to terms with his sexuality, experienced…
Cover of Fires on the Plain: A Novel
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Shōhei Ōoka
“This haunting novel explores the complete degradation and isolation of a man by war. The book is set on the island of Leyte in the Philippines during World War II, where the…