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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (February 24, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0143126822
  • ISBN-13: 978-0143126829
  • Product Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.7 x 8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (926 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsNone Can Understand
By Free2Read on November 28, 2013
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I am a soldier's daughter. Because my father served in World War II (Navy then), he did not speak of the war to me when he came home. It wasn't done.

But as I came through the Vietnam era in college and saw my students go off to wars in the Middle East as a teacher, I became more and more obsessed with understanding war.

REDEPLOYMENT by Phil Klay gives a variety of perspectives of war. Because he uses short stories and a number of narrators, Klay can move from returned vet at the height of his PTSD to bored Foreign Service Officer trying to put Iraqi kids into baseball uniforms because someone upstairs wants a PR picture. Never mind that the child rounded up may have been working on an IED the day before. The plight of the soldier, his amped up emotions and his training to be vigilant, to KILL or BE KILLED, overrides all other themes. Whether a man has endured burns all over his body or has been awarded a Medal of Valor, the wars of this century have marked a generation of men (and women, whom Klay acknowledges) as surely as WWI marked Wilfred Owens, the poet.

This is a bruising, snarling, hair-tearing blast of the breaths of death and war. Phil Klay, you speak of what you know.

Though mankind does not seem to learn from the history of war, voices like Klay's help to remind those safely watching the evening news that the soldiers are people's sons, daughters, husbands, wives and the "collateral damage" includes children and families with no interest in politics or global strategies. Klay's narrators give us the shifting tides of war with the constant of harm, ruin, and pain.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Stories You Don't See in the Headlines
By asiana VINE VOICE on January 13, 2014
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The various short stories in this collection tell the REAL cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and are more vivid than any war movie you might see on the screen. Through the eyes of one narrator, one feels the anxiety of a Marine sent out day after day on patrol, unknowing if the kids he sees on the street are just kids or are planting IEDs which could kill him. One feels the frustration of a Foreign Service Officer whose efforts to get a pipeline working is next to impossible due to the hatred between Sunnis and Shi'a. This same officer is told to use donated funds to provide baseball shirts to Iraqis even though they don't play baseball which shows that the US is the goose that lays the golden egg. A chaplain uses care packages from the US addressed "To Any Marine" to provide "cover" for those marines who are reluctant tot admit that they want to talk about concerns. The newspapers never talk about the use of drugs to help one sleep nor is there any mention of a "contact board" to show which platoon has the most engagements with the enemy. And, although the media convey much of the hardships veterans face when returning home, the story of a Marine who shot dogs who were eating corpses in Iraq and how his deployment affected him upon his return to civilian life, broke my heart. This is a book that should be read!!
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5.0 out of 5 starsPay attention. As real and honest as it gets. Highly recommended.
By Timothy J. Bazzett on March 4, 2014
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You won't find any sappy sentimentality or off-putting macho muscle flexing in Phil Klay's REDEPLOYMENT, a collection of twelve stories that all deal with combatants and veterans of the Iraq war. Nope. These stories are about as real and honest as anything you'll find being written these days about how the crucible of this war has affected the young men and women who were part of it, and, who have been irrevocably changed by it.

While there is not a false note to be found in any of these tales, the one that I found perhaps most affecting was "Prayer in the Furnace," told by a Catholic priest, a Marine Corps chaplain whose own faith is severely tested as he struggles to give aid to Marines severely traumatized physically, emotionally and spiritually by repeated combat tours. Men whose brains have been buffeted by blasts from IEDs and whose consciences are deadened and wracked by unspeakable atrocities witnessed - and committed - on a near-daily basis. The chaplain's role in a combat unit seems sadly marginalized, however, and although he turns for guidance to the writings of St John of the Cross and Augustine, in the end he feels frustrated, powerless and ashamed. (This story in particular I felt could be the basis for an equally powerful novel.)

There are also stories here of veterans trying to adjust, to assimilate back into civilian life; and struggling, feeling set apart, different. A former JAG officer who never saw combat, but did the paperwork, now a law student ready to enter a high-paying career, still feeling "more like a Marine out of the Corps than I'd felt while in it ... to everyone I met, I was 'the Marine.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsConflict and Its Consequences in Two Wars
By not a natural on December 23, 2013
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Phil Klay's Redeployment is a collection of stories prompted by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Redeployment is also the title of the lead story, which was also the lead in an earlier collection rooted in the same conflicts and titled Fire and Forget. Redeployment the story is simply brilliant. The experience of coming home after seven months in combat is described in a way that enables the reader to almost accomplish the impossible: experience this awkwardly joyful process as the Marines actually experience it.

The story deftly avoids the maudlin tears-of-joy theme that would have been convenient and easy to exploit as Marines are reunited with their families and loved ones. Instead, Klay gives us a realistic mix of humor, jubilation, sadness, humiliation, desperation, and the vague but soon-to-pass discomfort that comes from being reunited with those closest to us who have become, for the short term, a bit unfamiliar. Things like kissing your wife or hugging your child are not quite as automatically easy and taken for granted as they were seven months before. In most instances, things will return quickly to normal, but for now even the once intimately familiar takes a little getting accustomed to.

When I reviewed Fire and Forget, I noted that the story Redeployment is one of very few works of fiction that, at special places, made me turn away, wince, and feel like crying. The way Klay melds military training with love for an old friend that has suffered long enough is mesmerizing. Cold steel, hot lead, a serene wooded area, and the instantaneous termination of pain perfectly define the end of a relationship characterized by real love. It's something you can't imagine until you've read it.Read more ›
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

1.0 out of 5 starsOne Star

The language fouls the message.

Published 8 days ago by Amy Lee Milner
4.0 out of 5 starsdepressing and funny well told stories about Marines in Iraq

Unique, interesting, graphic, depressing and funny well told stories about Marines in Iraq. Very interesting for us civilians.

Published 10 days ago by William J. Teitelbaum
5.0 out of 5 starsOne of the best from 2015, or any year

I usually lean toward "long fiction" rather than short stories, but I'm very glad I made an exception in this case. Read more

Published 14 days ago by Bill Hansen
5.0 out of 5 starsGood read!

Well written, clean, athletic prose. A bit repetitive in ideas expressed. Gives honest honor and yet straight truth of a soldiers mind.

Published 15 days ago by Philip Thomas
4.0 out of 5 starsNot bad, not as good as I was hoping

Tough book to read, the subject matter is difficult and frustrating sometimes. The multiple character perspectives aND non linear time line made it tougher. Read more

Published 18 days ago by Eduardo D. Mendez
4.0 out of 5 starsPainfully wonderful

These stories are haunting and so real. They stay in your mind and when something reminds you of one of the stories, you can’t remember if it’s a story from someone you knew, or a... Read more

Published 21 days ago by ARaisinGrl
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Great book. I think those who have had loved ones deploy will benefit from reading this.

Published 22 days ago by Georgia Girl
4.0 out of 5 starsWar is awful!

This is a difficult book to read because of the content. Anyone who reads this would wonder why there is war. It's awful. That being said, it is worth reading. Read more

Published 28 days ago by Claire Welch
5.0 out of 5 starsHeartfelt

The stories in this book bring out emotions both complicated and simplistic, the way real life is. Happy, sad, ambivalent, or all the above- each one imparts a wry pessimism taken... Read more

Published 1 month ago by BookAddict
5.0 out of 5 starsOutstanding work

Outstanding work, highly recommended to all who served or to those who want to know the brutal realities of the Iraq war.

Published 1 month ago by DavidDixonUSMC

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