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È con una prospettiva nuova che Brian Van Reet racconta, da reduce, il conflitto armato nella vasta crisi mediorientale, portando il lettore sul campo, accanto ai soldati, a respirarne le illusioni infrante, i compromessi con la coscienza, gli orrori fatti di carne e sangue. La giovanissima Cassandra Wigheard, donna soldato arrivata in Iraq nel 2003 per sfuggire alla desolazione della provincia americana, cade in un'imboscata dei jihadisti e s...

Now in paperback, this novel depicts eight weeks in the lives of a soldier and her captors, by an ex-soldier in the US Army. 'Clear, authentic and beautifully written, ' Anne Enright

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Wanneer de negentienjarige Amerikaanse soldate Cassandra Wigheard door jihadist Abu-al-Hool en zijn handlangers gevangen wordt genomen, wordt de loyaliteit van beiden tot het uiterste getest.

Spring, 2003. Coalition forces are advancing on Iraq. Nineteen-year-old Specialist Cassandra Wigheard, on her first deployment since joining the US army two years earlier, is primed for war. This fast-paced, hard-hitting account of eight weeks in the lives of a soldier and her captor forces us to reconsider the simplistic narratives of war spun by those in power.

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