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Why We Write: Craft Essays on Writing War Kindle Edition
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Entertaining, informal, and accessible, this first-ever Military Writers Guild-sponsored anthology is ideal for:
- Aspiring writers & practicing professionals
- Writing workshops
- Classroom discussions of war literature, literary history, and popular culture
- Professional development forums
Contributors include such leading authors as:
- Phil Klay (Redeployment)
- Vanya Eftimova Bellinger (Marie von Clausewitz: The Woman Behind the Making of “On War”)
- David Abrams (Fobbit and Brave Deeds)
- Alex Finley (Victor in the Rubble and Victor in the Jungle)
- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon (Ashley’s War and The Dressmaker of Khair Khana)
- Thomas E. Ricks (Churchill & Orwell: The Fight for Freedom; The Generals; Fiasco; The Gamble)
- Kate Germano (Fight Like a Girl: The Truth Behind How Female Marines are Trained)
- Peter Van Buren (We Meant Well and Hooper’s War)
- Kori Schake (Safe Passage; Warriors and Citizens)
- Max Brooks (World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War)
- Jessica Scott (The Coming Home; Falling; and Homefront romance series)
- Carmen Gentile (Blindsided by the Taliban: A Journalist's Story of War, Trauma, Love, and Loss)
- Hugh Martin (In Country; Stick Soldiers; and So, How Was the War?)
- Robert L. Bateman (No Gun Ri: A Military History of the Korean War Incident and Digital War: A View from the Front Lines)
- P.W. Singer & August Cole (Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War)
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date10 December 2019
- File size2189 KB
Product details
- ASIN : B07Z8BQD6T
- Publisher : Middle West Press LLC (10 December 2019)
- Language : English
- File size : 2189 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 360 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 718,003 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the authors
Eric Chandler has written for Flying Magazine, Silent Sports Magazine, Northern Wilds, Minnesota Flyer, and Lake Country Journal, to name a few. Literary journals like The Talking Stick and Sleetmagazine.com have published his fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. He's a member of Lake Superior Writers, an Active Member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America, and an Associate Member of the Military Writers Guild.
He's also an Air Force veteran with twenty years of experience flying the F-16. He served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He enjoys cross country ski racing and marathon running. He lives with his wife and two children in Duluth, Minnesota.
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Steve Leonard serves as the Director of Assessments for the University of Kansas School of Business, where he is an award-winning faculty member and chairs graduate programs in Organizational Leadership and Supply Chain Management. He is a former senior military strategist and the creative force behind the defense microblog, Doctrine Man!! A career writer and speaker with a passion for developing and mentoring the next generation of thought leaders, he is a senior fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point; the co-founder of the national security blog, Divergent Options, and the podcast, The Smell of Victory; co-founder and board member of the Military Writers Guild; and a member of the editorial review board of the Arthur D. Simons Center’s Interagency Journal. Published extensively, his writing focuses on issues of foreign policy, national security, strategy and planning, leadership and leader development, and, occasionally, fiction. An alumnus of the School of Advanced Military Studies, he led the interagency team that authored the U.S. Army’s first stability operations doctrine, spearheaded the reintroduction of operational art into capstone doctrine, and wrote the guiding principles for the Army Design Methodology. He is the author of five books, numerous professional articles, countless blog posts, and is a prolific military cartoonist.
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What I most appreciated is the breadth of perspectives that you'll find within this book. Each story is by a different author, and each has their own voice with their own perspective to share. I really appreciated this work.
