War

For fifteen months Sebastian Junger was embedded with a platoon in a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan. Subject to fierce attack on a daily basis and to numerous casualties, his relationship with the soldiers grew so close that they considered him one of them.

Junger's ambition was both simple and ambitious- to convey what war actually feels like. What follows is an extraordinary insight into the truths of combat: the intense physical toil, the numbing anticipation of battle, the adrenaline-fuelled confusion of ambush, and the agony of loss.

War is a timeless account of life lived at the extremes: the fear of dying, the trauma of killing and the intense and unique bon between fellow soldiers who would rather die than let each other down.