November 12, 2003: A suicide attack on the Italian military base in
Nasiriyah, Iraq, leaves twenty-eight dead, including nineteen
Italian soldiers and civilians, and scores more wounded. Among the
survivors is a young, brash, and in some ways naive Roman
filmmaker, Aureliano Amadei, who has arrived only the day before to
scout locations for a movie. Gravely injured in the attack, Amadei
uses the long months of his recovery to reflect upon the
circumstances that took him to Nasiriyah, the contradictions of the
Italian military presence in Iraq, his country's response to the
"Nasiryah Massacre" and its embrace of the "Heroes of Nasiriyah,"
and the official investigations into security failures at the
Italian base that tragic day. "One of the best books about the
modern experience of war, from a victim's perspective, that I have
read.... This is an intensely readable book." (Dr. Frank Huyler,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, emergency physician and author of The
Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine and a novel,
The Laws of Invisible Things.) "In a clear, compelling voice,
Amadei and Trento take us beyond the rhetoric of war to all the
complexities of the actual experience. The layers of searing pain,
of misperception, of the invisibility of individuals, of kindness
and empathy that challenge long-held beliefs, of official hypocrisy
and public myopia and-most improbably-the moments of humor, make
for a great read." (Ginny Morrison, Mediators Beyond Borders)"
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