War is too weird a thing to make sense of when it’s actually happening. It’s not just the combat, which by its nature is unintelligible. Armed conflict so fundamentally alters the environment it takes hold of that no aspect of life escapes undistorted: not love, not friendship, not sleep, not trust, not conversation. In war, even boredom is strange, writes DEXTER FILKINS in his opening review of the book Redeployment.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 02:04:19 +0000
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