{"product_id":"9781250074935","title":"No Man's Land : Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9\/11 America","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eNo Man's Land\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Elizabeth D. Samet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the post-9\/11 wars wind down, a literature professor at West Point explores what it means for soldiers, and our country, to be caught between war and peace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn her critically acclaimed, award-winning book \u003ci\u003eSoldier's Heart,\u003c\/i\u003e Elizabeth D. Samet grappled with the experience of teaching literature at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Now, with \u003ci\u003eNo Man's Land, \u003c\/i\u003eSamet contends that we are entering a new moment: a no man's land between war and peace. Major military deployments are winding down, but soldiers are wrestling with the aftermath of war and the trials of returning home while also facing the prospect of low-intensity conflicts for years to come. Drawing on a range of experiences-from a visit to a ward of wounded combat veterans to correspondence with former cadets, from a conference on Edith Wharton and wartime experience to teaching literature and film to future officers-Samet illuminates an ambiguous passage through no man's land that has left deep but difficult-to-read traces on our national psyche, our culture, our politics, and, most especially, an entire generation of military professionals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNo Man's Land, \u003c\/i\u003eElizabeth D. Samet offers a moving, urgent examination of what it means to negotiate the tensions between war and peace, between \"over there\" and \"over here\"-between life on the front and life at home. She takes the reader on a vivid tour of this new landscape, marked as much by the scars of war as by the ordinary upheavals of homecoming, to capture the essence of our current historical moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Splendidly written and intensely provocative... [\u003ci\u003eNo Man's Land\u003c\/i\u003e] is an appropriate memorial...” —\u003ci\u003ePhilip Seib, Dallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As a civilian professor at West Point--a state of not quite military, not quite civilian--Samet is uniquely positioned to ponder and probe the intellectual and emotional challenges confronting the modern officer corps. Her smooth flowing essay delivers penetrating observations and criticisms... of what it means for the United States and its soldiery to be \"adrift between war and peace.” —\u003ci\u003eGregory Crouch, Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“So much as \u003ci\u003eNo Man's Land\u003c\/i\u003e expertly filters our last decade of war through the prism of literature, it is also does something more-it sounds a clarion call for institutional change in a period of great uncertainty.... That such a message comes from a professor of literature at West Point seems reason enough for optimism.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Part literary criticism, part intellectual memoir, and part reportage of the struggles, successes, and in two cases the deaths of her former students, \u003ci\u003eNo Man's Land \u003c\/i\u003eis a moving, insightful, and refreshingly iconoclastic guide toward a more nuanced understanding of America and the military that fights for it.” —\u003ci\u003ePhil Klay, Redeployment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Samet] writes evocatively and eloquently.” —\u003ci\u003eJ. Ford Huffman, Military Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong-listed Shelf Awareness Best Books of the Year (2014)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250074935\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40631442407630,"sku":"9781250074935","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_684db70a-f223-4438-b60d-bd36d1a370cf.jpg?v=1638843751","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250074935","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}