Stevenson, Jonathan

Draws upon insights provided by thirty-two militants, both republican and loyalist, to provide a history and analysis of the twenty-five years of conflict over the ancestral political question of whether Northern Ireland should unite with the Republic of Ireland or remain a British state.

Tells the stories of twenty-one American Vietnam veterans who for various reasons would not, or could not leave Southeast Asia after the war, and refused to leave behind the people they had fought and defended.