Elise Forbes Tripp

The United States is embroiled in conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan (and now Libya?)wars that seem as far from Americans understanding as the countries are distant from our shores. With American Veterans on War, Elise Forbes Tripp brings our current wars and their predecessors home in the words o...

'Surviving Iraq' is the result of a close collaboration between the author and 30 veterans of the Iraq War who volunteered to tell their own stories. They tell what their lives were like in and out of combat in Iraq and Kuwait and how they viewed the war.