Words After War invites you to join us in reading our official book club selection for November, The Theater of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today by Bryan Doerries.

Words After War invites you to join us in reading our official book club selection for October, Fives and Twenty-Fives by Michael Pitre.

In Fives and Twenty-Fives, readers journey through the battlefields of modern warfare, following a road repair platoon’s efforts to clear and fill potholes containing explosive devices. The novel is narrated in alternating chapters by three main characters: the platoon leader, his medic, and their Iraqi translator, a fan of hip-hop and Huck Finn, all of them looking back on the catastrophe that shattered their world.

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As summer winds down, we’re excited to invite you to read our September book club selection: You Know When the Men Are Gone by Siobhan Fallon.

Through this series of powerful interconnected stories, readers are welcomed into the American army base at Fort Hood, where U.S. soldiers prepare to fight, and where their families are left to cope after the men are gone.

You Know When the Men Are Gone has been called “…gripping, straight-up, no-nonsense stories” by The New York Times and “Fascinating” by O, the Oprah Magazine. New York Journal of Books praised it as “The explosive sort…

The Words After War Book Club features a book each month that we believe is important for our community to read and discuss. As we go, we invite you to read along with us, and we conclude each month with an interview with the author, shared on The Huffington Post.

So far, we’ve read Elliot Ackerman’s Green on Blue, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s Ashley’s War, War of the Encyclopaedists by Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite, and Girl at War by Sara Nović. Thanks to all who are participating!

This month, please join us in reading I’d Walk with My Friends if…

Since early 2015, the Words After War Book Club has featured a book each month that we believe is important for our community to read and discuss. As we go, we invite you to read along with us, and we conclude each month with an interview with the author, shared on The Huffington Post.

In April, we read Elliot Ackerman’s Green on Blue, followed by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s Ashley’s War in May, and most recently, we read War of the Encyclopaedists by Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite in June. We also concluded June with a great Danger Close event at…

Earlier this spring, we launched the Words After War book club. Every month, we feature a new book we believe is important for our community to read and discuss, followed by a Q&A with the author. In April, we read Elliot Ackerman’s Green on Blue, followed by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s novel Ashley’s War in May. Thanks to all who have been participating!

This month, please join us in reading War of the Encyclopaedists, a novel by Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite that tells the story of a generation at a crossroads and a friendship that stretches over continents and crises…

Last month, we launched the Words After War book club. Every month, we’ll feature a new book we believe is important for our community to read and discuss, followed by a Q&A with the author. In April, we read Elliot Ackerman’s GREEN ON BLUE. Thanks to all who participated! Our Q&A with Elliot can be read over at Huffington Post.

This month, we hope you’ll join us in reading Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s novel Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield, the story of a groundbreaking team of female American warriors who…

This is the launch of the Words After War book club. Every month we will feature a new book that we believe is an essential book for our community to read and discuss. At the end of the month, we will do a Q & A with the author. April’s selection is Green on Blue by Elliot Ackerman. Thanks for joining us in this new venture.