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Subject(s)

• Torture—Psychological aspects [Browse]
• Soldiers—United States—Psychology [Browse]
• Psychology, Military [Browse]
• War on Terrorism, 2001-2009—Atrocities [Browse]
• War on Terrorism, 2001-2009—Influence [Browse]
• Iraq War, 2003-2011—Atrocities [Browse]
• Afghan War, 2001-2021—Atrocities [Browse]

Summary note

Recounts the journey of a U.S. tank battalion's prisoner detention duties, showing how a group of ordinary soldiers, ill-trained for their new responsibilities, descended into the degradations of abuse.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Searching for answers
• The story begins in Afghanistan
• "We weren't in the CIA-we were soldiers"
• Shock the conscience
• Rumors, myths, and ticking bomb stories
• Crimes of omission
• Silent suffering
• Confronting torture's legacy
• Homecoming.

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ISBN

• 9781844675999 ((hbk.))
• 1844675998 ((hbk.))

LCCN

2010280623

OCLC

464580581

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