It’s been ten years since boots hit the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they’re still there. Many veterans of these wars are also accomplished writers, and this collection presents twenty-five short stories that convey the truths of these conflicts in ways journalism or history can’t. Join Adrian Bonenberger, the volume’s co-editor, blogger of “The Wrath Bearing Tree,” and author of the memoir, Afghan Post, and contributors David Eisler, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan as an Army officer from 2007 to 2012; T.M. Gibbons-Neff, a staff reporter for the Washington Post; Kristen L. Rouse, who writes the trueboots.com blog and served in the U.S. Army in Afghanistan in 2006, 2010, and 2012; and Kayla Williams, a linguist and former Army intelligence specialist and author of the memoirs Love My Rifle More than You and Plenty of Time When We Get Home.
