War

Available to Times+ members from Friday 12th April- 11.59pm on Sunday 14th April 2013

For fifteen months, Sebastian Junger accompanied a single platoon of thirty men from the celebrated 2nd battalion of the U.S. Army, as they fought their way through a remote valley in Eastern Afghanistan. Over the course of five trips, Junger was in more firefights than he could count, men he knew were killed or wounded, and he himself was almost killed. His relationship with these soldiers grew so close that they considered him part of the platoon, and he enjoyed an access and a candidness that few, if any, journalists ever attain.

This is more than just a book about Afghanistan or the 'War on Terror'; it is a book about the universal truth of all men, in all wars. Gripping, honest and intense, War is a narrative about combat: the fear of dying, the trauma of killing and the love between platoon-mates who would rather die than let each other down.