As You Were: To War and Back with the Black Hawk Battalion of the Virginia National Guard

A powerful, enraging, tear-jerking reminder of how so few Americans have sacrificed so much during the so-called' war on terror'. the best kind of war book. - Alex Kershaw, author of The Bedford Boys and Escape from the Deep

""Through the voices and experiences of five very diverse members of the Virginia National Guard, As You Were gives the great majority of Americans who have not been sent to war a sense of the experiences of our citizen-soldiers and the family, employment, and health problems they face reentering American society after experiencing combat."" - David R. Segal, Drector, Center for Research on Military Organization, University of Maryland

""A sad, stirring, sometimes maddening story. Christian Davenport writes not so much about combat, but rather the home front-the struggles of the families left behind while their providers go off to war and of the solders themselves as they stagger back to a civilian world that declines to reward, or even betrays, their sacrifice."" - Fred Kaplan, ""War Stories"" columist, Slate; author of Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power

Author: Christian Davenport
Publisher: Trade Paper Press
Published: 05/01/2009
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.52w x 0.99d
ISBN: 9780470373613

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/15/2009 pg. 84
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2009 pg. 296

About the Author
Christian Davenport is a reporter for the "Washington Post." He was embedded with the Virginia Army National Guard's 2-224th, and his work covering the military helped uncover some of the iconic photographs of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.