War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author, an unflinching and close-up look at war: its intoxicating allure, its gruesome realities, and the grandeur it exposes about humanity.

"A brilliant, thoughtful, timely, and unsettling book." -New York Times

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction

General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God, I do love it so!" Though Patton was a...