What wars leave behind
Subtitle: the faceless and the forgotten
By: J. Malcolm Garcia
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Columbia [Missouri]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780826220219
Subjects: Civilians in war; War victims; Description and travel
Description: "Garcia describes his travels in some of the world's hotspots in Central Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. In a series of personal travel essays that read like short stories, he exposes the endless messiness of war and the failing of good intentions, and he traces their impact on the lives of natives in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, Kosovo, Chad, and Syria."--Publisher description.
Notes: A collection of previously published essays; original dates of publication range from 2006 to 2013.
Table of contents: title: Securing District 4; title: Beneath us the ground still moves; title: African promise; title: Who is in the power?; title: The dead lieutenant; title: Revolution Download; title: You cannot tell from the expressions on our faces what we are feeling; title: Missing; title: Here everything is poison; title: Bed 18; title: Pyramid schemes; title: War wounds; title: Maybe the children will forget; title: Unpaid leave; title: City of the dead.