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 grander truths it exposes about humanity

“A brilliant, thoughtful, timely, and unsettling book . . . Abounds with Hedges’ harrowing and terribly moving eyewitness accounts.” —The New York Times

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction

As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in C...