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Sites, Kevin.
The things they cannot say :
stories soldiers won't tell you about what they've seen, done or failed to do in war /
Kevin Sites.
New York :
HarperCollins/Perennial,
2013.
xxxiv, 295 pages :
illustrations ;
20 cm.
Pt. 1. The killing business: what's it like to kill in war? -- pt. 2. The wounds of war: what's it like to be shot, bombed or burned in combat? -- pt. 3. Things that stain the soul: what can never be forgotten -- pt. 4. Deadly honest mistakes: what's it like to kill your own men or civilians? -- pt. 5. Moral ambiguities: how do you know what's right?
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.
Soldiers.
Military history, Modern
21st century.