What does it feel like to get shot? What does it feel like to kill a person? What will happen to my body after I die? If
these are questions you seek answers to, New York Times journalist Chris Hodges’s manual on modern warfare is just the ticket. WHAT EVERY PERSON SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WAR is not a story, a biography or a report; it is quite simply a no holds barred look at modern warfare scenario's and their realistic, unflinchingly brutal out comes. The structure of the book is a sorted series of chapters dedicated to specific questions, chapters include; LIFE IN WAR, WEAPONS AND WOUNDS, IMPRISONMENT, TORTURE, RAPE and DYING. While written in an extremely simple, fact based manner this title possesses a disturbing, objective stance on the tragedy of war. Questions range from same sex fears all the way to "what happens when a mortar shell hits me?” The answers are as blunt and stark as the questions posed but all this only serves the books intentions, to discuss the
devastation of war minus any exaggeration and glorification while helping to shed light on little known facts, statistics and realities otherwise unknown. This title could and probably should be handed out to every recruit or potential recruit; although more than likely Military brass would disapprove; if every person knew the truth about warfare enlistment
numbers would drop drastically. If you are interested in knowing the effects of anti personnel land mines on soldiers legs or the most effective forms of physical and psychological torture then look no further. This title deals in facts, real proven numbers and real life consequences, this may be unsettling for many readers but that is the nature of war, and that nature is detailed here with quality and tragic authenticity. If you have the stomach to swallow this rough, uncompromising manual of death and devastation you may come out with a deeper appreciation for those in the uniform and more importantly a vivid, naked truth account of the most ugly of human atrocities, WAR.