What Have We Done

Most Americans are now familiar with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its prevalence among soldiers. In this groundbreaking new book, David Wood examines the more pervasive yet less understood experience of those we send to war: moral injury, the violation of our personal sense of right and wrong.

Featuring interviews with combat veterans, VA officials, and leading mental-health researchers, along with Wood's personal experiences with U.S. Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan, WHAT HAVE WE DONE offers an unflinching look at what war does to all of us--those who fight on the front lines and those at home.

Impeccably researched and deeply personal, WHAT HAVE WE DONE is a compassionate, exacting investigation into the heart of emotional trauma as Wood asks us not only to look at what has happened, but to consider what we can do going forward.

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