GUARDIANS

the long version

"The images of war. Snapshots from Abu Ghraib that depict atrocities committed in the name of freedom. Tabloid images of English soldiers abusing an Iraqi prisoner that are later revealed as fakes. And somewhere between England and America, between savagery and spin, lies the truth. In monologues that mingle fierce irony with humane warmth, heartbreaking emotion with breaktaking intelligence, Guardians offers storytelling at its simplest--and its most complex. A disgraced American soldier tells her story. And a clever English journalist tells how he got his."--Publisher description, from p. [4] of cover.