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- ISBN 9781640125438
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2022
- Publisher: Potomac Books Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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 personal combat accounts from some of these war veterans. In modern warfare no deployment meets the expectations laid down by stories of Appomattox, Ypres, Iwo Jima, or Tet. Stuck behind a desk or the wheel of a truck, many of today’s veterans feel they haven’t even been to war, though they may have listened to mortars in the night or dodged improvised explosive devices during the day.
After Combat bridges the gap between sensationalized media and reality by telling war’s unvarnished stories. Soldiers, sailors, marines, and air force personnel (retired, on leave, or at the beginning of military careers) describe combat in the ways they believe it should be understood. In this collection of interviews, veterans speak anonymously with pride about their own strengths and accomplishments, with gratitude for friendships and adventures, and also with shame, regret, and grief, while braving controversy, misunderstanding, and sanction.
In the accounts of these veterans, Eide and Gibler seek to present what Vietnam veteran and writer Tim O’Brien calls a “true war story”-one without obvious purpose or moral imputation and independent of civilian logic, propaganda goals, and even peacetime convention.
After Combat bridges the gap between sensationalized media and reality by telling war’s unvarnished stories. Soldiers, sailors, marines, and air force personnel (retired, on leave, or at the beginning of military careers) describe combat in the ways they believe it should be understood. In this collection of interviews, veterans speak anonymously with pride about their own strengths and accomplishments, with gratitude for friendships and adventures, and also with shame, regret, and grief, while braving controversy, misunderstanding, and sanction.
In the accounts of these veterans, Eide and Gibler seek to present what Vietnam veteran and writer Tim O’Brien calls a “true war story”-one without obvious purpose or moral imputation and independent of civilian logic, propaganda goals, and even peacetime convention.
Marian Eide is a professor of English at Texas A&M University. Her research and teaching address twentieth-century and contemporary narrative with a particular focus on ethics and war. She is the author of Ethical Joyce. Michael Gibler is a retired colonel and served as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army for twenty-eight years and is now an assistant professor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. His assignments included airborne, air assault, and light and Stryker infantry units; he participated in Operation Just Cause, Operation Desert Shield/Storm, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
