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In 2003, Sergeant Brian Turner was at the head of a convoy of 3,500 soldiers as they entered the Iraqi desert. Ten years later, he lies awake beside his sleeping wife, hallucinating: he is a drone aircraft. He hovers over a landscape in which the terrains of every conflict, of Bosnia and Vietnam, Iraq and Northern Ireland, the killing fields of Cambodia and the death camps of Europe, are pressed together, and the violence is ongoing. The hallucination recurs, and every night Sergeant Turner is forced to observe anew all that man has done to man. My Life as a Foreign Country follows the experience of one soldier in one recent war - the preparations, actions, homecomings and infinite aftermath - but then explodes from those narrow limits. Unburdened by nostalgia, hollow sympathy or a journalistic hunger for fact, this account combines the recalled with the imagined, and leaps centuries and continents to seek parallels in the histories of other men. The result is an opportunity to enter the head of a man still stalked by war, to experience conflict with new definition and lasting effect.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: My Life as a Foreign Country
• Author: Brian Turner
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780099578871
• ISBN: 0099578875
• ID: 09230991
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 186 g
• Dimensions: 199 × 128 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 2015

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