The Death Of Others Analysis

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In this paper I will be reviewing John Tirmans, The Death of Others, published in 2011, Ann Jones, They Were Soldiers, published in 2013, and Nancy Sherman, The Untold War, published in 2010. These three novels, provide a slight twist on the normal, historically romanticized, view of war. Jones and Sherman take a more psychological approach to warfare going into depth regarding American veterans take on war, while Truman takes a different approach elaborating in great detail, the causation of the war and the unspoken effects on those the American Military inflicted harm on, the innocent civilians and the regions they one called home, destroyed. This paper will outline main takeaways from each novel by discussing how the war spiraled far beyond …show more content…
To begin, it makes sense to analyze Truman's novel, The Deaths of Others, being that it provides more background to the war itself. Spread throughout Washington DC and other points across the country, are memorials honoring the American war dead, but among these statues and plaques, there is no credit given to the people these soldiers were meant to protect or liberate and within Truman’s novel, he sets out to uncover why Americans appear to be so indifferent to non-American victims of war, the majority of which, died on our count. The first half of Truman’s novel documents the leading up to the Iraq war, beginning with the Puritans. However, the area of focus for this particular case begins in the 20th century regarding oil. Truman begins this outline by iterating that America’s entry into the Persian Gulf in 1990 which was the first large scale military intervention in the region. It was operation Desert Storm that was