Shooting Ghosts: A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (577 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01N1RRDMH |
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| Number of Pages | : | 111 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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It reveals what it means to be human, and is a testament to the healing powers of friendship.”—Emma Sky, senior fellow, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University, and author of The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq “Peering into the hellish abyss of trauma-induced madness, a marine and the photojournalist sent to photograph him tell how their lives and experiences intertwined on parallel paths of violence, despair, and, ultimately, reinvention. While the two men had different missions and experiences, their stories mingled, compared, and contrasted in Shooting Ghosts make for a remarkable and memorable book.”—Santiago Lyon, former vice president of photography at the Associated Press, winner of two World Press Photo prizes and the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents“Shooti
J. Their story, told in alternating first-person narratives, is about the things they saw and did, the ways they have been affected, and how they have navigated the psychological aftershocks of war and wrestled with reforming their own identities and moral centers. Through the unpredictability of war and its aftermath, a decorated Marine sergeant and a world-trotting war photographer became friends, their bond forged as they patrolled together through the dusty alleyways of Helmand province and camped side by side in the desert. The causes can be different, but guilt plays a prominent role in both. Brennan began to suffer from the effects of his injury and from the fallout of his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their friendship offered them both a shot at redemption. But war correspondents experience similar rates of posttraumatic stress as combat veterans. As we enter the fifteenth year of continuous war, it is increasingly urgent not just to document the ex
. He was profiled in the documentary film Under Fire: Journalists in Combat (Peabody Award winner, Oscar finalist) and has held fellowships at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and the MacDowell Colony. Since 2012, he has been a regular contributor to The New York Times At War blog. He has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia, and is the founder of TheWarHorse, a nonprofit online newsroom dedicated to chronic