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by Chris Hedges (Author), Laila Al-Arian (Author), Eugene Richards (Photographer)
Collateral Damage brings together testimony from the largest number of on the record, named, combat veterans who reveal the disturbing, daily reality of war and occupation in Iraq.
Through their eyes, we learn how the mechanics of war lead to the abuse and frequent killing of innocents. They describe convoys of vehicles roaring down roads, smashing into cars, and hitting Iraqi civilians. They detail raids that leave families shot dead in the mayhem. And they describe a battlefield in which troops, untrained to distinguish between combatants and civilians, are authorized to shoot whenever they feel threatened.
Author Biography
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he was their Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief. He is a New York Times bestselling author of sixteen books, including Empire of Illusion, War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, and American Fascists. He holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University and writes at chrishedges.substack.com. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
Laila Al-Arian is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning investigative journalist and filmmaker, and an executive producer of Fault Lines, a documentary program on Al Jazeera English. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, The Guardian, The Independent, and other outlets. She lives in Washington, DC.
