Rules of Engagement by William Langewiesche
On 19 November 2005 in Al-Haditha, Iraq , an American convoy is destroyed by an antitank mine: a Marine died in the attack. The military court is still investigating Pendleton - whose relationship has never been made public - the violent retaliation immediately implemented by the surviving marines. An everyday occurrence for those who live Iraq, a case of hot gravity for the West to tell is the voice of William Langewiesche, correspondent for Atlantic Monthly magazine . Surveys and reports by the journalist did your books: Rules of engagement is the fifth Italian publication, again for Adelphi. Langewiesche reconstructs the story of Kilo Company, now in its third rotation in Iraq and now the protagonist a court case that probably will never reach a formal conclusion. The death of a comrade after the attack directed against their vehicle, pushing the marines to penetrate the homes near the blast site and kill all the occupants: "Killing is not a crime - not in Iraq, not whether the rules allow. " Two families of civilians - innocent and harmless nineteen people - are brutally killed. What happened to the American command is not nearly as noteworthy, for the soldiers directly involved it was to apply directives to the letter above, which, in their view, fully justify them. With his direct style, Langewiesche recounts an event dramatic without falling into banality, the easy emotion, the pathos free. There is no rhetoric or sentimental complacency in the most gruesome descriptions, but only the desire to return made no omissions and no frills. The drama that still manages to evoke the atmosphere that recreates the plurality of points of view that considers the grotesque concept of "truth" that emerge are the strengths of a book that points to the dignity of work literary rather than journalistic.
Giovanna Ieluzzi
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