num_pages: 160
description: A dramatic true story of men and women trapped in the grip of war Next Time Theyll Come to Count the Dead is modern crisis reporting at its best.For six weeks in the Spring of 2015 award-winning journalist Nick Turse traveled on foot as well as by car SUV and helicopter around war-torn South Sudan talking to military officers and child soldiers United Nations officials and humanitarian workers civil servants civil society activists and internally displaced personspeople whose lives had been blown apart by a ceaseless conflict there. In fast-paced and dramatic fashion Turse reveals the harsh reality of modern warfare in the developing world and the ways people manage to survive the unimaginable.Next Time Theyll Come to Count the Dead isnt about combat its about the human condition about ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances about death life and the crimes of war in the newest nation on earth.
language: English
title: Next Time They'll Come to Count the Dead: War and Survival in South Sudan
publisher: Haymarket Books