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It Happened On The Way To War: A Marine's Path To Peace (2011)

by Rye Barcott(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1608192172 (ISBN13: 9781608192175)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Bloomsbury USA

review 1: More than any other book I have read, this book is helping me to prepare for my trip to Kenya. It details Kibera, a large slum in Nairobi. It talks about how an American college student, heading towards the Marines founds an NGO. It begins to answer questions about what development is. Is development really possible? Because he winds up doing military intelligence in the Marines, in Bosnia, Africa and then Iraq, he also talks about the difference between waging peace and making war. Ultimately he asks if he made enough of a difference. What model works? Does any of it? Well written but ultimately depressing. What difference do any of us make?
review 2: Little did I know when I purchased this book on a whim that it would be the most important book for me persona... morelly that I have read in a long time. Rye Barcott's struggle between two worlds that appear at first glance to be polar opposites is the real-life version of the struggle I've felt within ever since I began considering a career in the JAG Corps. As I sit here writing this review during my last human rights empowering experience before joining the Army in January, I find it extremely motivating to discover that these types of work can in fact be complimentary. The passage on page 310, last paragraph (at least in the paperback version), was particularly what I needed to hear.Beyond my personal connection to the subject matter, Barcott is an amazing writer. He pulls you into the story every step of the way. His descriptions are so real you're never left struggling to figure out what he was trying to say. And as an editor who often notices mistakes in books, I have to say I was insanely impressed that a book that had only been out for a year and thus was likely the first paperback edition, there was only one error that caught my eye in the entire book.Anyone who has not heard of Kibera needs to read this book, and for those of us who have, this book is an intense journey, if only a brief glimpse, into what life is really like there--and that it is possible for such a large, sprawling community to still make a difference and changes the way things are. less

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