Research Catalog

Title

• Shooting ghosts : a U.S. Marine, a combat photographer, and their journey back from war / Thomas J. Brennan, USMC (Ret.), and Finbarr O'Reilly.

Author

Brennan, Thomas J. (Thomas James)

Publication

• New York : Viking, [2017]
• ©2017

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

O'Reilly, Finbarr, 1971-

Description

x, 340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer, whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls War tears people apart, but it can also bring them together. Through the unpredictability of war and its aftermath, a decorated Marine sergeant and a world-trotting war photographer became friends, their bond forged as they patrolled together through the dusty alleyways of Helmand province and camped side by side in the desert. It deepened after Sergeant TJ Brennan was injured during a Taliban ambush, and both returned home. Brennan began to suffer from the effects of his injury and from the fallout of his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. But war correspondents experience similar rates of post-traumatic stress as combat veterans. The causes can be different, but guilt plays a prominent role in both. For Brennan, it's the things he's done, or didn't do, that haunt him. Finbarr O'Reilly's conscience is nagged by the task of photographing people at their most vulnerable while being able to do little to help, and his survival guilt as colleagues die on the job. Their friendship offered them both a shot at redemption."--Provided by publisher.

Alternative Title

U.S. Marine, a combat photographer, and their journey back from war

Subject

• Afghan War, 2001-2021 > Campaigns > Helmand
• Afghan War, 2001-2021 > Personal narratives, American
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military
• Brennan, Thomas J
• O'Reilly, Finbarr, 1971-
• PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Post-traumatic stress disorder > Patients > Biography
• Reuters Limited > Employees > Biography
• Since 2001
• United States. Marine Corps > Officers > Biography
• War > Psychological aspects
• War > Psychological aspects
• War photographers > Afghanistan > Biography
• War photographers > Africa > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Personal Narrative
• Personal narratives

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-325) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Finbarr O'Reilly -- Thomas J Brennan.

ISBN

• 9780399562549
• 0399562540

LCCN

^^2017019760

OCLC

993134367

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library