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The deserter's tale : the story of an ordinary soldier who walked away from the war in Iraq / Joshua Key, as told to Lawrence Hill.

by Key, Joshua.

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Atlantic Monthly Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2007.

Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives, American

Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Desertions -- United States.

Military deserters -- United States -- Biography.

Americans -- Canada.

9780802143457 (pbk.)

9780887847974 (2008 Anansi trade pbk.)

0887847978 (2008 Anansi trade pbk.)

9780887842085 (Anansi ed.)

0887842089 (Anansi ed.)

237 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

"Joshua Key's critically acclaimed memoir, The Deserter's Tale, is the first account from a soldier who deserted from the war in Iraq, and a vivid and damning indictment of how the war is being waged. In spring 2003, young Oklahoman Joshua Key was sent to Ramadi as part of a combat engineer company with the U.S. military. The war he found himself participating in was not the campaign against terrorists and evildoers he had expected. Key saw Iraqi civilians beaten, shot, and killed for little or no provocation. After six months in Iraq, Key was home on leave and knew he could not return. So he took his family and went underground in the United States, finally seeking asylum in Canada. In clear-eyed, compelling prose crafted with the help of award-winning Canadian novelist and journalist Lawrence Hill, The Deserter's Tale tells the story of a man who went into the war believing unquestioningly in his government and who was transformed into a person who ethically, morally, and physically could no longer serve his country."

Hill, Lawrence, 1957-

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