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What Wars Leave Behind - The Faceless and the Forgotten (Paperback)
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They bear labels instead of names—noncombatant, unintended
victim, collateral damage. Theirs are the blurred faces and forms
seen in news footage shot from a moving vehicle. And when soldiers,
media, and profiteers move on to the next conflict, they stay
behind to cope amid the wreckage. They have stories to tell to
anyone who will pause long enough to hear them. In What Wars Leave
Behind, J. Malcolm Garcia reveals the people and pain behind the
statistics. He writes about impoverished families scraping by in
Cairo’s city of the dead, ordinary Syrians pretending all is well
as shells explode around them, and others caught in conflicts that
rage long after the cameramen have packed up and gone away. Garcia
describes his travels in some of the world’s hotspots in Central
Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. In a series of personal travel
essays that read like short stories, he exposes the endless
messiness of war and the failings of good intentions, and he traces
their impact on the lives of natives in Afghanistan, Pakistan,
Egypt, Kosovo, Chad, and Syria. He discovers amazing resilience
among people who must struggle just to survive each day. Garcia
gives readers the sort of gritty detail learned from immersing
himself in other cultures. He eats the food, drinks the tea, and
endures the oppressive heat. These are the stories of how a
middle-class guy from the Midwest with a social work degree learned
to experience and embrace the cultures of Third World countries in
conflict—and lived to tell the tale.
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Imprint: |
University of Missouri Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2023 |
Authors: |
J Malcolm Garcia
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
310 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8262-2275-6 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-8262-2275-7 |
Barcode: |
9780826222756 |
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