Publisher Description
Here, freelance writer Aaron Glantz hones in on the momentous impact of the Iraq war on injured veterans as they return home.
The War Comes Home is structured around the different experiences of US veterans of the Iraq war. Sections of the book are dedicated to the difficulties of reintegrating to civilian life after coming home, living with disability, unemployment, dealing with the military bureaucracy, suicide, and homelessness - as well as more upbeat sections about families, communities and fellow veterans pulling together to help each other.
Each section is told primarily through personal stories of Iraq war veterans and their families, backed-up by statistics. Some veterans appear as regular characters throughout the book, some only appear for a short discussion. Such a structure shows both the scope and the humanity of the issues at stake. In this way, The War Comes Home is conversational, readable, and informative.
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About Aaron Glantz
Aaron Glantz is a multiaward-winning investigative reporter whose work has sparked more than a dozen Congressional hearings, the signing of new laws, and criminal probes by the DEA, FBI, Pentagon, and Federal Trade Commission. Because of his reporting, 500,000 fewer US military veterans face long waits for disability compensation, while 100,000 fewer veterans are prescribed highly addictive narcotics by the government. His reporting has earned numerous awards, including a George Foster Peabody Award, two Military Reporters and Editors awards, an award from the Online News Association, and a national investigative reporting award from the Society of Professional Journalists. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America, and the PBS NewsHour, where he has twice been nominated for a national Emmy Award. He is a senior reporter at Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and a recent JSK Fellow at Stanford University. His previous books include How America Lost Iraq, The War Comes Home: Washington’s Battle against America’s Veterans, and Winter Solider Iraq & Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations, which he coauthored with Iraq Veterans Against the War.