'Surviving Iraq' is the result of a close collaboration between the author and 30 veterans of the Iraq War who volunteered to tell their own stories. They tell what their lives were like in and out of combat in Iraq and Kuwait and how they viewed the war.
"This fascinating collection of testimonies underscores the universality of all war. This is a 'bottom-up' celebration of the trials and terrors of so-called ordinary soldiers brought to that most terrible and transcendent of all moments--combat What emerges is a shocking, moving, and utterly heroic portrait of young men and women in impossible situations."