War Is Not a Game: The New Antiwar Soldiers and the Movement by Nan Levinson

March 16, 2017 adminWar Peace

By Nan Levinson

On July 23, 2004, 5 marines, infantrymen, and one airman grew to become the main not going of antiwar activists. younger and gung-ho once they first signed as much as guard their state, they have been despatched to struggle a battle that left them burdened, enraged, and haunted. after they lower back domestic, they turned made up our minds to place their disillusionment to exploit. in order that sultry summer time night, they fastened the degree of Boston’s old Faneuil corridor and introduced the release of Iraq Veterans opposed to the War.

War isn't a Game tells the tale of this new infantrymen’ antiwar circulate, displaying why it was once born, the way it fast grew, the place it has struggled, what it complete, and the way it keeps to resonate within the nationwide dialog approximately our army and our wars. Nan Levinson finds the contributors at the back of the circulation, portray an unforgettable portrait of those working-class veterans who refused to be obvious as easily tragic sufferers or battlefront heroes and in its place banded jointly to develop into leaders of a countrywide organization.

Written with sensitivity and humor, War isn't really a Game gives readers an uncensored, grunt’s-eye view of the occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan, whereas conveying the both dramatic struggles that squaddies face upon returning domestic. not easy to be obvious neither easily as tragic sufferers nor as battlefront heroes, the Iraq Veterans opposed to the struggle have labored to form the nationwide dialog. This ebook celebrates their bravery, displaying that typically the main important battles happen at the domestic front.

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