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Un-American
A Soldier's Reckoning of Our Longest War
Buch von Erik Edstrom
Sprache: Englisch

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A powerful manifesto and memoir about America's unchallenged war machine, from a West Point graduate and veteran of the war in Afghanistan.

Erik Edstrom was a member of a striving middle class family in Massachusetts when he enrolled in West Point. Four years later, he was deployed as a Lieutenant to Afghanistan, where he saw atrocities and experienced violence that led him to question America's mission and the need for war in general.

Blending his own doubt, his sense of moral complicity in an unjust war, and a searing examination of America and Americans at war, Edstrom lays out the stakes and the true cost of war: the death of young people on both sides of the battlefield and the wasted resources that could have been applied instead toward solving world problems.

For readers of The Forever War and It Happened on the Way to War, Un-American is a manifesto that bridges the gap between Edstrom's own terrifying experience as a soldier and the behemoth of America's shortsighted, self-destructive warmongering.
A powerful manifesto and memoir about America's unchallenged war machine, from a West Point graduate and veteran of the war in Afghanistan.

Erik Edstrom was a member of a striving middle class family in Massachusetts when he enrolled in West Point. Four years later, he was deployed as a Lieutenant to Afghanistan, where he saw atrocities and experienced violence that led him to question America's mission and the need for war in general.

Blending his own doubt, his sense of moral complicity in an unjust war, and a searing examination of America and Americans at war, Edstrom lays out the stakes and the true cost of war: the death of young people on both sides of the battlefield and the wasted resources that could have been applied instead toward solving world problems.

For readers of The Forever War and It Happened on the Way to War, Un-American is a manifesto that bridges the gap between Edstrom's own terrifying experience as a soldier and the behemoth of America's shortsighted, self-destructive warmongering.
Über den Autor
Erik Edstrom graduated from West Point in 2007. He was then deployed to Afghanistan, where he served as infantry platoon leader. Erik spent the remainder of his military service as the Presidential Escort Platoon Leader during the Obama administration. He is a graduate of U.S. Army Ranger school, was selected for the U.S. Special Forces (SFAS), and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. After the military, Erik went on to earn an MBA and Master of Science at Oxford University. He lives in Boston.
Zusammenfassung
Blends memoir and argument to create a powerful anti-war manifesto.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Zeitgeschichte & Politik
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: ab 1949
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781635573749
ISBN-10: 1635573742
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Edstrom, Erik
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Maße: 243 x 171 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Erik Edstrom
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.08.2020
Gewicht: 0,578 kg
Artikel-ID: 121072755
Über den Autor
Erik Edstrom graduated from West Point in 2007. He was then deployed to Afghanistan, where he served as infantry platoon leader. Erik spent the remainder of his military service as the Presidential Escort Platoon Leader during the Obama administration. He is a graduate of U.S. Army Ranger school, was selected for the U.S. Special Forces (SFAS), and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. After the military, Erik went on to earn an MBA and Master of Science at Oxford University. He lives in Boston.
Zusammenfassung
Blends memoir and argument to create a powerful anti-war manifesto.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Zeitgeschichte & Politik
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: ab 1949
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781635573749
ISBN-10: 1635573742
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Edstrom, Erik
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Maße: 243 x 171 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Erik Edstrom
Erscheinungsdatum: 20.08.2020
Gewicht: 0,578 kg
Artikel-ID: 121072755
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