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War Nerd - Paperback
War Nerd - Paperback
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by Gary Brecher (Author)
"[A] raucous, offensive, and sometimes amusing CliffsNotes compilation of wars both well-known and ignored." --Utne Reader
Self-described war nerd Gary Brecher knows he's not alone, that there's a legion of fat, lonely Americans, stuck in stupid, paper-pushing desk jobs, who get off on reading about war because they hate their lives. But Brecher writes about war, too. War Nerd collects his most opinionated, enraging, enlightening, and entertaining pieces. Part war commentator, part angry humorist à la Bill Hicks, Brecher inveighs against pieties of all stripes--Liberian generals, Dick Cheney, U.N. peacekeepers, the neo-cons--and the massive incompetence of military powers. A provocative free thinker, he finds much to admire in the most unlikely places, and not always for the most pacifistic reasons: the Tamil Tigers, the Lebanese Hezbollah, the Danes of 1,000 years ago, and so on, across the globe and through the centuries. Crude, scatological, un-P.C., yet deeply informed, Brecher provides a radically different, completely unvarnished perspective on the nature of warfare. "Military columnist Gary Brecher's look at contemporary war is both offensive and illuminating. His book, War Nerd . . . aims to explain why the best-equipped armies in the world continue to lose battles to peasants armed with rocks . . . Brecher's unrefined voice adds something essential to the conversation." --Mother Jones "It's international news coverage with a soul and acne, not to mention a deeply contrarian point of view." --The MillionsAuthor Biography
Gary Brecher (aka John Dolan) is the War Nerd. He is the author of War Nerd, The War Nerd Iliad, and Pleasant Hell.
Number of Pages: 328
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.26 x 5.52 IN
Publication Date: June 01, 2008
