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Matt Eversmann didn’t always plan to become a writer. Growing up, his dream was to pursue a life of military service. At 18, he joined the Army and soon found himself a member of the elite 75th Ranger Regiment. While serving with 3rd Ranger Battalion in 1993, he was deployed to Somalia, where he led…

Nearly a decade after Phil Klay’s debut book Redeployment won the National Book Award for Fictionand the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, the bestselling author and Iraq War veteran returns with his first venture into nonfiction. Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War is a collection of essays from Klay…

In 1997, Sebastian Junger achieved commercial and literary success with The Perfect Storm, the bestselling book that helped launch his storied career in adventure journalism. He followed his breakout success with an impressive list of nonfiction books, articles, and documentary films, cementing his place as one of the best contemporary nonfiction storytellers. His most recent…

Maj. Thomas Schueman has accomplished a lot in his 14 years of service as a Marine Corps infantry officer. He has served as both a platoon commander and an operations officer in one of the Corps’ most storied units — the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines. He has worked virtually alone as a reconnaissance adviser on…

Since leaving the military 16 years ago, David Rose has locked people up as a police officer, gotten himself placed on house arrest (anklet GPS and all), fought Muay Thai professionally, been committed to a VA psych ward, contracted in Afghanistan, broken onto the literary scene with a successful memoir, written award-winning poetry, and created…

Originally published by Coffee or Die  In America’s longest war to date, few places have proved more volatile, costly, and confusing than the Pech. The Pech River Valley sits in the rocky northeastern corner of Afghanistan, in the provinces of Kunar and Nuristan. With notable branches like the Korengal and Waygal, the Pech is composed of…