"A must-read war memoir… with zero punches pulled, related
by one of the most incisive observers of the American political scene."
—KIRKUS (starred review)
"Funny, biting, thoughtful and wholly original." —Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried
Jeff
Danziger, one of the leading political cartoonists of his generation,
captures the fear, sorrow, absurdity, and unintended but inevitable
consequences of war with dark humor and penetrating moral clarity.
If
there is any discipline at the start of wars it dissipates as the
soldiers themselves become aware of the pointlessness of what they are
being told to do.
A conversation with a group of today’s
military age men and women about America’s involvement in Vietnam
inspired Jeff Danziger to write about his own wartime experiences: “War
is interesting,” he reveals, “if you can avoid getting killed, and don’t
mind loud noises.”
Fans of his cartooning will recognize his
mordant humor applied to his own wartime training and combat
experiences: “I learned, and I think most veterans learn, that making
people or nations do something by bombing or sending in armed troops
usually fails.”
Near the end of his telling, Danziger invites
his audience—in particular the young friends who inspired him to write
this informative and rollicking memoir—to ponder: “What would you do? . .
. Could you summon the bravery—or the internal resistance—to simply
refuse to be part of the whole idiotic theater of the war? . . . Or
would you be like me?”
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