Bloody Hell

By Dan Hallock and Simon Weston

In this work, veterans of every major war of the 20th century lay bare the horror, official lies and their ongoing suffering. The author attempts to forge past the boundaries of conventional war stories to expose the chasm between the recruiter's sell and the realities of the military machine.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874869692
• ISBN13: 9780874869699
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Plough Publishing House
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 5.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 5.9"

Customer Reviews

bloody, but brilliant (and essential) reading for the historian

No real historian or politician is adequately equipped to compassionately and truly comment upon or make decisions regarding government sanctioned violence without understanding it from the perspective and pain of those involved. This book will achieve this for the reader at the cost of a naïvity most educational systems would rather you kept. Read it or remain ignorant. [Personally i wouldn't watch the religious flex at the end, but that is a minor downer, and not worth removing even half a star from - the book is outstanding and has no equal in its league.]

Good book for teenagers!

The military services spend tens of millions of dollars on advertising to attract young people to their ranks. Supported by school guidance counselors as a prime career option the system enlists hundreds of thousands of low income teens. What happens next? Read this book to understand why such a high proportion of our nation's homeless and mentally ill are veterans. This pocket sized paperback is based on a larger hardcover version called Hell, Healing and Resistance.

Profoundly disturbing

This book gave me great insight into the trauma to people's lives as a result of war and the war machine. It is profoundly written and the subject is sensitively handled. I'm sure not everyone will agree with the author's view point, but it sure helped me to have better understanding for the war veterans I come in contact with.