“Yvonne Latty’s In Conflict is a powerful reminder that there are countless stories out there to be told about the young men and women fighting our wars, stories unlike anything we’ve heard before. And Latty writes these profiles with great respect, showing us the humanity, emotions, and even humor of these individuals who have witnessed the realities of warfare firsthand. They are, like this book, truly unforgettable.”
—Andrew Carroll, editor of the New York Times bestseller War Letters

“Yvonne Latty is a terrific reporter and interviewer with an eye for the telling nugget, the magic detail, that can explain a life. In this remarkable book, she lays out the real story of the war in Iraq in a way that no Bush administration official or CNN reporter could ever approach. Latty lets the soldiers tell the tale, with all the pride, fear, disillusionment and pain that combat veterans can express. The truth about war is that there is never a good one, and Latty allows us to see that in unpretty, unrelenting detail. She ultimately inspires envy in her journalist colleagues, because she delivers the goods and covers fresh ground in a way that the rest of us should have thought of, but simply never did.”
—Alfred Lubrano, author of Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams, columnist, and feature writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and a regular commentator for NPR.