Quagmire personal stories from Iraq and Afghanistan / edited by Donald Anderson ; foreword by Philip Beidler.
| Other author | Anderson, Donald, 1946 July 9- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | [Lincoln, Nebraska] : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2021] |
| Description | xvi, 238 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Personal stories from Iraq and Afghanistan |
| Contents | Machine generated contents note: Preface -- Donald Anderson / When War Becomes Personal: A Prologue -- Jason Armagost / Things To Pack When You're Bound For Baghdad -- Rebecca Kanner / Safety -- Patrick Mondaca / Allawi -- Nolan Peterson / Scars -- Teri Carter / War College -- Jordan Hayes / The Colonel's Bicycle -- Gerardo Mena / Phalanx -- J. Malcolm Garcia / A Promise To Keep -- Bobby Briggs / Service With A Smile -- Brian Duchaney / The Man I Killed -- Alyssa Martino / Free Falling Soldier -- Paul Van Dyke / A Sliver Of Blue -- Nicholas Mercurio / Lucky -- Matthew Komatsu / 31 North 64 East -- Thomas Simko / The Long Goodbye -- R. B. Moreno / What Happened Yesterday In Baghdad -- Micah Fields / Zeh Mutaasif Yum -- Jonathan Burgess / Chai Party -- Jason Arment / A Bridge To Nowhere -- Benjamin Busch / Wilderness -- Brian Lance / Warplay -- John Whittier-ferguson / Gift Of Our Attention: An Epilogue. |
| Abstract | "In Quagmire you'll find a range of voices-men and women, military and civilian-and a range of perspectives from the homeland, the combat zone, and war's aftermath. These personal responses to war in Iraq and Afghanistan have been selected from War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities to mark the thirtieth anniversary of its inaugural publication. The responses cover approximately fifteen years of the United States' conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and demonstrate the aftermath of war, the degreed ripples that extend beyond soldiers to families and friends, lovers, hometowns, even pets. As citizens, Pablo Neruda advised, we have an obligation to "come and see the blood in the streets." To ignore what we do in war and what war does to us is to move willfully toward ignorance. To ignore such reminders imperils ourselves, our communities, and our nation. "-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020057471 |
| ISBN | 9781640124523 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (epub) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |