Bloody Hell: The Price Soldiers Pay

No real historian or politician is adequately equipped to compassionately and truly comment upon or make decisions regarding government sanctioned violence without understanding it from the perspective and pain of those involved. This book will achieve this for the reader at the cost of a naïvity most educational systems would rather you kept. Read it or remain ignorant. [Personally i wouldn't watch the religious flex at the end, but that is a minor downer, and not worth removing even half a star from - the book is outstanding and has no equal in its league.]

The military services spend tens of millions of dollars on advertising to attract young people to their ranks. Supported by school guidance counselors as a prime career option the system enlists hundreds of thousands of low income teens. What happens next? Read this book to understand why such a high proportion of our nation's homeless and mentally ill are veterans. This pocket sized paperback is based on a larger hardcover version called Hell, Healing and Resistance.

This book gave me great insight into the trauma to people's lives as a result of war and the war machine. It is profoundly written and the subject is sensitively handled. I'm sure not everyone will agree with the author's view point, but it sure helped me to have better understanding for the war veterans I come in contact with.