Voices from the Front: Turkish Soldiers on the War with the Kurdish Guerrillas (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403961204)

These riveting first-hand accounts of Turkish soldiers who have fought in the nasty internal war against the Kurds speak to universals: the shock of entering military life and the traumas of warfare; the changes in personality and relations with family and friends, the lingering emotional effects of violence, and the difficulties in returning to the 'real world', to borrow a phrase from Vietnam vets. Corruption, disillusionment and despair alternate with the small victories of humanity overcoming hellish conditions. Mater's reportage is in the best tradition of revealing the surreal, illuminating the universal truth of war's devastation. At a time when American troops are again caught in a vicious insurgency, the Kurdish issue has high visibility, and Turkey is a major actor in the Middle East, the experiences of these former soldiers resonate.

Author: N. Mater
ISBN-10: 1403961204
ISBN-13: 9781403961204
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/13/2005
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.38w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
New York Review of Books 02/12/2006 pg. 34