A review by ncarter5069
Redeployment by Phil Klay

4.0

Where I originally went into this book expecting fluff, some sort of Clint Eastwood delivery similar to American Sniper or Flags of our Fathers, I actually got much more out of it. Klay succeeds in painting veterans at home moreso than overseas, but he doesn't fail there either. I haven't yet compared a collection to Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, but this may be it. Klay creates an all-too-real veteran struggling for answers against the atrocities he was forced to commit. Good work. I would've liked to see more from the Iraqi side of things, but Klay stuck with what he knew from his time served.