The Things They Cannot Say: Stories Soldiers Won’t Tell You About What They’ve Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War

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What is it like to kill?  What is it like to be under fire? How are you aware what’s right? What are you able to never overlook?

In The Things They Cannot Say, award-winning journalist and writer Kevin Sites asks these difficult questions of eleven soldiers and marines, who—by sharing the truth about their wars—display a rare courage that transcends battlefield heroics.

For each and every of these men, many of whom Sites first met whilst in Afghanistan and Iraq, the truth means something different. One struggles to get well from a head injury he believes has stolen his ability to love; any other attempts to compensate for the killing of an innocent man; yet any other finds respect for the enemy fighter who tried to kill him. Sites also shares the unsettling narrative of his own failures right through war—including his complicity in a murder—and the redemptive powers of storytelling that saved him from a self-destructive downward spiral.

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