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Voices from the Front

Turkish Soldiers on the War with the Kurdish Guerrillas

Produktform: E-Buch Text Elektronisches Buch in proprietärem

These riveting first-hand accounts of Turkish soldiers who have fought in the nasty internal war against the Kurds speak to universals: the shock of entering military life and the traumas of warfare; the changes in personality and relations with family and friends, the lingering emotional effects of violence, and the difficulties in returning to the 'real world', to borrow a phrase from Vietnam vets. Corruption, disillusionment and despair alternate with the small victories of humanity overcoming hellish conditions. Mater's reportage is in the best tradition of revealing the surreal, illuminating the universal truth of war's devastation. At a time when American troops are again caught in a vicious insurgency, the Kurdish issue has high visibility, and Turkey is a major actor in the Middle East, the experiences of these former soldiers resonate.weiterlesen

Elektronisches Format: PDF

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-1-4039-8188-2 / 978-1403981882 / 9781403981882

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Erscheinungsdatum: 23.03.2016

Seiten: 320

Vorwort von Cynthia Enloe, Kenneth A. Loparo
Autor(en): N. Mater

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