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Book Review: The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of Our Soldiers by Nancy Sherman

The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of Our Soldiers

By Nancy Sherman

W.W. Norton; 338 pages

It's difficult to remain neutral when it comes to war. Mindful of that fact, Sherman takes pains to declare on the very first page of her new book that it is "not a political tract for or against a war." But the reader will nonetheless find much within to hate about armed conflict. It would be hard not to. Based on interviews with 40 soldiers, most of whom served in Iraq and Afghanistan, The Untold War tells tales of mangled limbs and...

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