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None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture
None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture
None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture
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None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture

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None of Us Were Like This Before recounts the dark journey of a tank battalion as its focus switched from conventional military duties to guerilla warfare and prisoner detention. Author Joshua E. S. Phillips tells a story of ordinary soldiers, ill trained for the responsibilities foisted upon them, who descended into a cycle of degradation that led to the abuse of detainees. The book illustrates that the damaging legacy of torture is borne not only by the detainees, but also by American soldiers and the country to which they have returned.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherVerso US
Release dateJul 4, 2012
ISBN9781781684047
None of Us Were Like This Before: American Soldiers and Torture
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Joshua E. S. Phillips

Joshua E. S. Phillips is based in New York City and has reported from Asia and the Middle East. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Newsweek, Salon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, among other publications. His radio features have been broadcast on NPR and the BBC. In 2009, Phillips received the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and the Newspaper Guild's Heywood Broun Award of Substantial Distinction for his American Radio Works documentary What Killed Sergeant Gray.

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    One of the very best nonfiction books about the war on terror, told through third and first person narrative accounts. The book explores how American military forces become engaged in torture during battlefield operations, and the myriad costs to them, their detainees, and to the war on terror itself.

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