A review by bobbo49
The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows by Brian Castner

3.0

I heard an interview with the author on NPR, and the book provides an insider's view of the war in Iraq by an explosives ordnance demolition expert - someone who is called in to blow up i.e.d.s, or to survey the site after one explodes. This is an incredibly intense and close-up look at the impact of war on the lives of the soldiers and civilians at its epicenter, including particularly the lingering effects of ptsd and traumatic brain injuries on the military and their families. Castner is a soldier, not a writer, but his book is thought-provoking and distressing.