War is not a game : the new antiwar soldiers and the movement they built / Nan Levinson.
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TextPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014]Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813571157
- 0813571154
- Iraq Veterans Against the War
- Iraq Veterans Against the War
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Veterans -- Political activity -- United States
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Protest movements
- Soldiers -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Veterans -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- Peace movements -- United States -- History -- 21st century
- HISTORY -- Military -- Iraq War (2003- )
- Peace movements
- Protest movements
- Soldiers -- Political activity
- Veterans -- Political activity
- Iraq
- United States
- Iraq War (2003-2011)
- 2000-2099
- 956.7044/31 23
- DS79.767.P76 L48 2014
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-272) and index.
Text in English.
Print version record.
Prologue: war is not a game -- Maimed for bullshit (with gallantry on the side) -- Boots on the ground -- Exit a free man -- Home fires burning -- What noble cause -- One paragraph in -- We'll bring 'em on -- Art heart dream peace -- Disgruntled -- Mad bad sad -- Winter soldiers' stories.
On July 23, 2004, five marines, two soldiers, and one airman became the most unlikely of antiwar activists. Young and gung-ho when they first signed up to defend their country, they were sent to fight a war that left them confused, enraged, and haunted.
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