Submitted by: David Wood

Category: Books

Most Americans are now familiar with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its prevalence among soldiers. In this groundbreaking new book, David Wood examines the more pervasive yet less understood experience of those we send to war: moral injury, the violation of our personal sense of right and wrong.

Featuring interviews with combat veterans, VA officials, and leading mental-health researchers, along with Wood's personal experiences with U.S. Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan, WHAT HAVE WE DONE offers an unflinching look at what war does to all of us--those who fight on the front lines and those at home.

Impeccably researched and deeply personal, WHAT HAVE WE DONE is a compassionate, exacting investigation into the heart of emotional trauma as Wood asks us not only to look at what has happened, but to consider what we can do going forward.

About the author:

David Wood, a veteran reporter, is a staff correspondent for the Huffington Post, where he won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting on wounded warriors. A birthright Quaker and raised as a pacifist, Wood has spent more than thirty years covering conflicts around the world, most recently in extended deployments embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan