They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America's Wars

"Unsparing, scathingly direct, and gut-wrenching . . . the war Washington doesn't want you to see" (Andrew J. Bacevich, New York Times-bestselling author of Washington Rules)

This "uncompromisingly visceral" account (Mother Jones) of what combat does to American soldiers comes from a veteran journalist who was embedded with troops in Afghanistan and reveals the harrowing journeys of the wounded, from the battlefield to back home.

Along the way, the author of the acclaimed Kabul in Wint...