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War is Hell

July 4th, 2008

Recently my twin brother (and Ed-itor) Ed turned me on to an excellent book called “What Every Person Should Know About War”, by Chris Hedges. Hedges is a long-time foreign correspondent for the New York Times, and his goal was to write an unglamorous, no-nonsense, meticulously researched book on the facts of war. (He’s covered many wars in the past, and was even captured for a week in Iraq.) The book is quite short at 120 pages (I’m not including the extensive notes), terse, and has “very few adjectives”. If you’re looking for the latest spy …