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War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning
by Chris Hedges

    Publication Date: Jun 10, 2003
    List Price: $15.00
    Format: Paperback, 224 pages
    Classification: Fiction
    ISBN13: 9781400034635
    Imprint: Anchor
    Publisher: Penguin Random House
    Parent Company: Bertelsmann

    Paperback Description:

    As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divinity student, has seen war at its worst and knows too well that to those who pass through it, war can be exhilarating and even addictive: “It gives us purpose, meaning, a reason for living.”

    Drawing on his own experience and on the literature of combat from Homer to Michael Herr, Hedges shows how war seduces not just those on the front lines but entire societies, corrupting politics, destroying culture, and perverting the most basic human desires. Mixing hard-nosed realism with profound moral and philosophical insight, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning is a work of terrible power and redemptive clarity whose truths have never been more necessary.



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