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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Doubleday
Publication date
July 10, 2012
Pages
222
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780385536202
ISBN-10
0385536208
Dimensions
1 by 6 by 8.75 in.
Weight
0.85 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$25.95
Subjects
§As reported by publisher
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Disappointment River: Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage | All the Ways We Kill and Die | War | What It Is Like to Go to War | Divided Minds | What It Is Like to Go to War | The Yellow Birds
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: In the tradition of Michael Herr’s Dispatches and works by such masters of the memoir as Mary Karr and Tobias Wolff, a powerful account of war and homecoming.
Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Iraq. Days and nights he and his team—his brothers—would venture forth in heavily armed convoys from their Forward Operating Base to engage in the nerve-racking yet strangely exhilarating work of either disarming the deadly improvised explosive devices that had been discovered, or picking up the pieces when the alert came too late. They relied on an army of remote-controlled cameras and robots, but if that technology failed, a technician would have to don the eighty-pound Kevlar suit, take the Long Walk up to the bomb, and disarm it by hand. This lethal game of cat and mouse was, and continues to be, the real war within America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But The Long Walk is not just about battle itself. It is also an unflinching portrayal of the toll war exacts on the men and women who are fighting it. When Castner returned home to his wife and family, he began a struggle with a no less insidious foe, an unshakable feeling of fear and confusion and survivor’s guilt that he terms The Crazy. His thrilling, heartbreaking, stunningly honest book immerses the reader in two harrowing and simultaneous realities: the terror and excitement and camaraderie of combat, and the lonely battle against the enemy within—the haunting memories that will not fade, the survival instincts that will not switch off. After enduring what he has endured, can there ever again be such a thing as “normal”? The Long Walk will hook you from the very first sentence, and it will stay with you long after its final gripping page has been turned.
Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Iraq. Days and nights he and his team—his brothers—would venture forth in heavily armed convoys from their Forward Operating Base to engage in the nerve-racking yet strangely exhilarating work of either disarming the deadly improvised explosive devices that had been discovered, or picking up the pieces when the alert came too late. They relied on an army of remote-controlled cameras and robots, but if that technology failed, a technician would have to don the eighty-pound Kevlar suit, take the Long Walk up to the bomb, and disarm it by hand. This lethal game of cat and mouse was, and continues to be, the real war within America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But The Long Walk is not just about battle itself. It is also an unflinching portrayal of the toll war exacts on the men and women who are fighting it. When Castner returned home to his wife and family, he began a struggle with a no less insidious foe, an unshakable feeling of fear and confusion and survivor’s guilt that he terms The Crazy. His thrilling, heartbreaking, stunningly honest book immerses the reader in two harrowing and simultaneous realities: the terror and excitement and camaraderie of combat, and the lonely battle against the enemy within—the haunting memories that will not fade, the survival instincts that will not switch off. After enduring what he has endured, can there ever again be such a thing as “normal”? The Long Walk will hook you from the very first sentence, and it will stay with you long after its final gripping page has been turned.
Editions
Hardcover
The price comparison is for this edition
from Doubleday (July 10, 2012)
9780385536202 | details & prices | 222 pages | 6.00 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $25.95
About: In the tradition of Michael Herr’s Dispatches and works by such masters of the memoir as Mary Karr and Tobias Wolff, a powerful account of war and homecoming.
About: In the tradition of Michael Herr’s Dispatches and works by such masters of the memoir as Mary Karr and Tobias Wolff, a powerful account of war and homecoming.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Anchor Books (April 9, 2013)
9780307950871 | details & prices | 222 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $15.00
This edition also contains The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows, The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows
This edition also contains The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows, The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows
from Gardners Books (February 28, 2013)
9780857521583 | details & prices | 240 pages | List price $21.95
This edition also contains The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows, The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows
This edition also contains The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows, The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows
Library
Large print edition from Center Point Pub (September 1, 2012)
9781611735109 | details & prices | 303 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $33.95
This edition also contains The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows
About: Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit.
This edition also contains The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows
About: Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit.
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