Sebastian Junger Libri

Per quindici mesi, Sebastian Junger ha seguito un plotone di trenta soldati americani in una remota valle dell'Afghanistan, trovandosi coinvolto in numerosi scontri e rischiando la vita. Il suo obiettivo era comunicare al mondo i pensieri ed emozioni più profondi dei soldati. Junger svela la verità su come vivono la guerra e il significato autentico di termini come "onore", "paura" e "coraggio". Si propone di rispondere alla "domanda-bomba": perché un uomo si butterebbe su una granata per salvare persone conosciute da pochi mesi? La risposta è complessa e tocca il cuore di ciò che significa essere un uomo, oltre che un soldato. L'opera non racconta una guerra qualunque, ma un'esperienza inimmaginabile per la maggior parte di noi: la preparazione alla battaglia, l'adrenalina di un'imboscata, la paura di morire, il frastuono degli spari, il trauma di uccidere e il cameratismo tra uomini che preferirebbero morire piuttosto che deludere i compagni. Da questo reportage, l'autore ha tratto il film candidato all'Oscar "Restrepo. Inferno in Afghanistan".

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm. 'Mind blowingly brilliant' PHILIPPA PERRY

October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--a tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have ever witnessed. Few, except the six-man crew of the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing boat tragically headed towards its hellish center.

A riveting collection of literary journalism by the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, capped off brilliantly by a new Afterword and a timely essay about war-torn Afghanistan -- a superb eyewitness report about the Taliban's defeat in Kabul -- new to book form. Sebastian Junger has made a specialty of bringing to life the drama of nature and human nature. Few writers have been to so many disparate and desperate corners of the globe. Fewer still have met the standard of great journalism more consistently. None has provided more starkly memorable evocations of extreme events. From the murderous mechanics of the diamond trade in Sierra Leone, to an inferno forest fire burning out of control in the steep canyons of Idaho, to the forensics of genocide in Kosovo, this collection of Junger's reporting will take readers to places they need to know about but wouldn't dream of going on their own. In his company we travel to these places, pass through frightening checkpoints, actual and psychological, and come face-to-face with the truth.

From the author of THE PERFECT STORM and WAR comes a book about why men miss war, why Londoners missed the Blitz, and what we can all learn from American Indian captives who refused to go home. Tribe is a look at post-traumatic stress disorder and the challenges veterans face returning to society. Using his background in anthropology, Sebastian Junger argues that the problem lies not with vets or with the trauma they've suffered, but with the society to which they are trying to return. One of the most puzzling things about veterans who experience PTSD is that the majority never even saw combat--and yet they feel deeply alienated and out of place back home. The reason may lie in our natural inclination, as a species, to live in groups of thirty to fifty people who are entirely reliant on one another for safety, comfort and a sense of meaning: in short, the life of a soldier. It is one of the ironies of the modern age that as affluence rises in a society, so do rates of suicide, depression and of course PTSD. In a wealthy society people don't need to cooperate with one another, so they often lead much lonelier lives that lead to psychological distress. There is a way for modern society to reverse this trend, however, and studying how veterans react to coming home may provide a clue to how to do it. But it won't be easy.

A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm

Die perfekte Verbindung von akribischer Recherche und mitreißender Erzählweise. Die Weltwoche, Thomas Widmer

In oktober 1991 raast een gigantische storm voor de Amerikaanse oostkust, die vele vissers en hun familie, maar ook de reddingsdiensten, menig spannend uur bezorgt.