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I know this has been done here before, probably ad nauseum. However, I just spent the weekend at the Northwest Bookfest in Seattle, and enjoyed a wonderful panel titled Survivor of War: Perspectives on Human Conflict.

Each panelist offered a compelling current book. I have already read Anthony Swofford's "Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles," and I heartily recommend it. In addition, I will recommend "Every War Has Two Losers: William Stafford On Peace and War," edited by his son Kim Stafford, "The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire" (this one is simply amazing, a tale of a Chechen surgeon's experience during the two Russian-Chechan wars of the 1990s. it is beautifully written with both harrowing and insightful specifics and perspective.) by Khassan Baiev, and "Canal House," a novel by war correspondent Mark Lee.

OK. That's it for me. More when I get farther into these.