War is: soldiers, survivors, and storytellers talk about war

What I Believe About War

War Is ...?

People Like War

Deciding About War

Dead Marine Becomes Lesson for Students

Letter to a Young Enlistee

The Recruitment Minefield

The Moment of Combat: an excerpt from What Every Person Should Know About War

Thou Shalt Not Kill

The War Prayer

Masters of War

Experiencing War

Letters from "Over There," 1919: excerpts from the World War I letters of Fred Duane Cowan

In the Front Lines

The God-Damned Infantry

A Pure Miracle

The Horrible Waste of War

A Long Thin Line of Personal Anguish

Memories of Vietnam

The Battle of the Horseshoe

Vietnam Tunnels

Letters from Vietnam

Women at War: What It Is Like to Be a Female Soldier in Iraq

Wordsmith at War

In Order to See Beauty in Life, I Had to See Hell

Tough

A Survivor's Tale

The Aftermath of War

Killing Flies

Heads

Further Reading

Copyright Acknowledgments