Quagmire: Personal Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan

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 and 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.

Author: Donald Anderson
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: 10/01/2021
Pages: 258
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 7.70w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781640124523
ISBN10: 1640124527
BISAC Categories:
- History | Wars & Conflicts | Afghan War (2001-2021)
- History | Wars & Conflicts | Iraq War (2003-2011)
- History | Middle East | General

About the Author
Donald Anderson is a professor of English and writer in residence at the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he edits War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. He is the author of Gathering Noise from My Life: A Camouflaged Memoir and the editor of When War Becomes Personal: Soldiers' Accounts from the Civil War to Iraq, among other books.