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A conflict memoir of uncommon literary beauty and electricity from the acclaimed poet who composed the poem "The Damage Locker". In 2003 Sergeant Brian Turner crossed the type of departure with a convoy of soldiers headed in to the Iraqi desert. Now he is placed awake every night beside his sleeping better half, imagining himself as a drone aeroplanes, hovering in the terrains of Bosnia and Vietnam, Iraq and North Ireland, the eradicating domains of Cambodia and the fatality camps of Europe. In this amazing memoir, award-winning poet Brian Turner retraces his conflict experience - predeployment to overcome area, homecoming to aftermath. Free of self-indulgence or self-glorification, his bank account combines recollection with the imagination's initiatives to make reality comprehensible. Across time he looks for parallels in the histories of others who have attended conflict, especially his taciturn grandfather (World War II), father (Cold War), and uncle (Vietnam). Turner offers something that is truly exceptional in a memoir of violent discord - he goes through with the sight of the opponent, imagining his way in to the connection with the other. Through it all he paints a disastrous portrait of what this means to be a soldier and a human being.
