A searing elegy to the experience of the American conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Brody started off as a soldier assigned to make visual propaganda during the Iraq campaign, then left the army and travelled to Afghanistan as an independent civilian journalist.

With a design borrowed from military field manuals, the volume manoeuvres through an evolving and often darkly humorous creative process — intimate, confronting and meditative. In anecdotes written from an intensely personal perspective, Brody offers an insider's view of the contentious but symbiotic relation between warfare and the press, and a soldier's deeply personal reckoning with both.