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'Redeployment' Explores Iraq War's Physical And Psychic Costs

Published November 20, 2014 at 2:09 PM CST

In his short story collection, former Marine Phil Klay takes his experience in Iraq and clarifies it, lucidly tracing the moral, political and psychological curlicues of Operation Iraqi Freedom. On Wednesday, he won the National Book Award for fiction for the collection.

This review originally aired March 26, 2014.

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