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The Things They Cannot Say : Stories Soldiers Won't Tell You About What They've Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War by Kevin Sites; OverDrive, Inc is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Things They Cannot Say : Stories Soldiers Won't Tell You About What They've Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War about?

What is it like to kill? What is it like to be under fire? How do you know what's right? What can you never forget? In The Things They Cannot Say , award-winning journalist and author Kevin Sites asks these difficult questions of eleven soldiers and marines, who—by sharing the truth about their wars—display a rare courage that transcends battlefield heroics. For each of these men, many of whom Sites first met while in Afghanistan and Iraq, the truth means something different. One struggles to recover from a head injury he believes has stolen his ability to love; another attempts to make amends for the killing of an innocent man; yet another finds respect for the enemy fighter who tried to kill him. Sites also shares the unsettling narrative of his own failures during war—including his complicity in a murder—and the redemptive powers of storytelling that saved him from a self-destructive downward spiral.

Who reads The Things They Cannot Say : Stories Soldiers Won't Tell You About What They've Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Kevin Sites; OverDrive, Inc
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9780061990526
Category
history
Subjects
Memoir, Fiction, Military History
Rating
4.5 / 5 (414 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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