Mass Casualties by Michael Anthony
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Overview: Much will be written about the Iraq War in years to come, but it’s difficult to envision any of it ever topping Michael Anthony’s Mass Casualties. The book is subtitled A Young Medic’s True Story of Death, Deception and Dishonor in Iraq, but even that does little justice to Anthony’s raw, unfiltered look at the heartache and misery he found himself surrounded by. Anthony’s one-year tour was spent alternately dodging mortar fire and spending long, sleep-deprived hours in operating rooms where medical teams struggled frantically to stitch similarly young lives back together. All the staples of war from classics like The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien or A Rumor of War by Phillip Caputo are here, from the disillusionment to the mind-numbing detachment to the utterly pointless political infighting. The difference is those books were at least mostly fiction, while Anthony’s real-life tale is presented in riveting diary form. Slight, short and to the point, Mass Casualties is destined to become a classic of its kind. Anthony’s prose is draped in caution, a warning sign flashed before the eyes of the jingoistic sensibilities of those who strut their patriotism before a curtain of deferments.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir, War
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