Whistles from the graveyard : my time behind the camera on war, rage, and restless youth in Afghanistan
(Non-fiction)
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Published
New York : One Signal Publishers, Atria, 2023.
Format
Non-fiction
Physical Desc
xxi, 246 pages ; 24 cm
Status
Benson Memorial Library
B 958.104 LAGOZE LAG
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B 958.104 LAGOZE LAG
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
Camera operators -- Afghanistan -- Biography.
Lagoze, Miles.
Lagoze, Miles. -- Combat Obscura.
Soldiers -- United States -- Biography.
United States. -- Marine Corps -- Biography.
United States. -- Marine Corps -- Military life -- History -- 21st century.
Camera operators -- Afghanistan -- Biography.
Lagoze, Miles.
Lagoze, Miles. -- Combat Obscura.
Soldiers -- United States -- Biography.
United States. -- Marine Corps -- Biography.
United States. -- Marine Corps -- Military life -- History -- 21st century.
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Published
New York : One Signal Publishers, Atria, 2023.
Language
English
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At just eighteen years old, Miles Lagoze joined the Marine Corps a decade after the war began and found himself surrounded by people not unlike those he’d left behind at home—aimless youth searching for stability, community, and economic security.
Deployed to Afghanistan as a Combat Cameraman—an active-duty videographer and photographer—Lagoze produced slick images of glory and heroism for public consumption. But his government-approved footage concealed a grim reality. Here, Lagoze pulls back the curtain and illustrates the grisly truth of the longest war in American history. As these young men and women were deployed to an unfamiliar country half a world away—history’s “graveyard of empires”—they carried the scars of the fractured homeland that sent them. Lagoze shows us Marines straddling the edge of chaos. We see forces desensitized to gore and suffering by the darkest reaches of the internet, unsure of their places in an unraveling world and set further adrift by the uncertain mission to which they had been assigned abroad.
Whistles from the Graveyard shows the parts of the Afghanistan War we were never meant to see—Afghan locals and American infantry drawn together by their fears of the ghostly, ever-present terror of the Taliban; moments of dark resignation as the devastating toll of years in war’s crossfire reveals itself between bouts of adrenaline-laced violence; and nights of reckless, drug-fueled abandon to dull the pain.
In full, vivid color, Miles Lagoze shows us an oft-overlooked generation of young Americans we cast out into the desert, steeped in nihilism, and shipped back home with firsthand training in extremism, misanthropy, and insurrection.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Lagoze, M. (2023). Whistles from the graveyard: my time behind the camera on war, rage, and restless youth in Afghanistan . One Signal Publishers, Atria.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lagoze, Miles. 2023. Whistles From the Graveyard: My Time Behind the Camera On War, Rage, and Restless Youth in Afghanistan. One Signal Publishers, Atria.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Lagoze, Miles. Whistles From the Graveyard: My Time Behind the Camera On War, Rage, and Restless Youth in Afghanistan One Signal Publishers, Atria, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Lagoze, Miles. Whistles From the Graveyard: My Time Behind the Camera On War, Rage, and Restless Youth in Afghanistan One Signal Publishers, Atria, 2023.
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