THIS is what I want to read when I read about war. War as a topic has since long been uninteresting to me, simply by the way it has been written and talked about by (male)historians, as if a machine that you can pick apart and study in amusement, like a rifle or a tank. An army is a weapon of force that is equal to a nations ability to recource the required material(living bodies).When operated, the machine produces waste(dead bodies and bodily fluids). The humanity and agency of every single individual body is discounted, rationalized away. War is "strategy", it is "3D chess", it is "good/bad tactics and logistics", war is "honorable", "necessary", "patriotic". Not in this book. This book is honest and raw. It commands you to not look away. It decribes war in the only way that truly matters -through the eyes of the bodies.