After War: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed

by Zoë H. Wool

Book Overview

In After War Zo H. Wool explores how the American soldiers most severely injured in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars struggle to build some kind of ordinary life while recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center from grievous injuries like lost limbs and traumatic brain injury. Between 2007 and 2008, Wool spent time with many of these mostly male soldiers and their families and loved ones in an effort to understand what it's like to be blown...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822360039
• ISBN13: 9780822360032
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.5" x 10.1"