| #3043378 in Books | Basic Books | 2007-05-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.19 x6.40 x9.22l,1.23 | File type: PDF | 336 pages | ||19 of 23 people found the following review helpful.| A necessary and riveting book|By tribecan|Tara McKelvey's account of the abuses at Agu Ghraib, in particular the abuses visited upon women prisoners, fleshes out the accounts we've read in newspapers of this scandal, and gives us personal testimony by some of the women who've been raped, as well as the first interview with Lyndie England, the woman holding the leash in one of||"Embraces the scope of the tragedy and reminds us of the cost of war." -- Errol Morris, filmmaker, Fog of War
"Monstering takes the reader into a hellish world and advances the story, disclosing revelations of power gone wrong." -- <
In April 2004, the Abu Ghraib photographs set off an international scandal. Yet until now, the full story has never been told. Tara McKelvey — the first U.S.journalist to speak with female prisoners from Abu Ghraib — traveled to the Middle East and across the United States to seek out victims and perpetrators. McKelvey tells how soldiers, acting in an atmosphere that encouraged abuse and sadism, were unleashed on a prison population of which the vast maj...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Monstering: Inside America's Policy of Secret Interrogations and Torture in the Terror War | Tara McKelvey. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.