TY  - BOOK
AU  - Günther,Lena-Simone
TI  - War experience and trauma in American literature: a study of American military memoirs of Operation Iraqi Freedom 
SN  - 9783631655115 (Print)
U1  - 810.93585670443 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Peter Lang
KW  - Soldiers' writings, American
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011
KW  - Personal narratives, American
KW  - Literature and the war
KW  - War
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Psychic trauma in literature
KW  - Military ethics
KW  - United States
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - War and society
N1  - Focuses on military memoirs: One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer (2005) by Nathaniel Fick, The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq (2005) by John Crawford, My War: Killing Time in Iraq (2006) by Colby Buzzell, Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (2009) by Clint van Winkle and Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War (2010) by Matt Gallagher
N2  - "Walt Whitman wrote: "The real war will never get into the books." To this day, however, American soldier-authors write about their war and translate traumatic experiences into language accessible to the reader. Veterans of the recent Iraq war do not differ here. Joining the post-draft American military, the selected soldier-authors are thrust into a conflict which soon exceeded governmental, military and public expectations. Focusing on core elements which link the selected military memoirs of Nathaniel Fick, Colby Buzzell, Clint Van Winkle, John Crawford and Matt Gallagher together, this book follows the soldier-authors' process of soldierization, their loss of innocence, moral responsibility and, finally, coping mechanisms for traumatic experiences sustained in combat" --
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