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    Volunteers: Growing Up in the Forever War, A Conversation with Jared Alexander

      In his provocative, impassioned memoir, Volunteers: Growing Up in the Forever War Jerad W. Alexander reveals what it was like to be raised on war, and vividly takes readers inside the increasingly closed culture that creates our warriors.

      Books available from Left Bank Books: https://www.left-bank.com/book/9781616209964
       
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