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While difficult to read at times due to severity of the events it portrays, it's also a page turner and well written.
The individual narratives are given context in both a larger political sense, and also within their own personal lives, human experience and social settings. The end feels abrupt when your each it, there's a sense of personal attachment and wondering what's happened to the people in the almost ten years since the book was published.
It seems to give the history of conflict a impartial and non-dogmatic treatment, though I don't know enough of the history to truly gauge that.
In terms of well written non-fiction that covers large scale social conflict, it's keeping company with "Say Nothing" by Patrick Radden Keefe (covering the IRA in Northern Ireland).
The individual narratives are given context in both a larger political sense, and also within their own personal lives, human experience and social settings. The end feels abrupt when your each it, there's a sense of personal attachment and wondering what's happened to the people in the almost ten years since the book was published.
It seems to give the history of conflict a impartial and non-dogmatic treatment, though I don't know enough of the history to truly gauge that.
In terms of well written non-fiction that covers large scale social conflict, it's keeping company with "Say Nothing" by Patrick Radden Keefe (covering the IRA in Northern Ireland).