Nothing in Reserve true stories not war stories eBook Jack Lewis
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"Nothing In Reserve" details the journey of a middle-aged soldier from suburbia through the sandbox as he wrangles with death, divorce and devastation on his way to a full, if damaged, heart. The stories in this book bring light to the real war fought by every man the struggle for meaning against the blaring chaos of war and the often purposeless drift of peacetime. The tenderness expressed herein was not acquired at retail. It was earned through unsparing, brutal honesty.
Praise for Jack Lewis's writing
"Every once in a while an author comes along who, through the sheer force and intensity of his prose, knocks you flat. To me, Jack Lewis is that writer and truly one of the great, literary heavyweights of his generation. No matter what subject he takes on, no matter how familiar we might initially assume it to be, Jack transforms it into something fresh, dynamic, and unforgettable. Road Work, just to give one example, is about as perfect a short story as any author could hope to craft — and like the rest of Jack’s writing, it hits hard and leaves a mark."
– Andrew Carroll, editor of Operation Homecoming.
Nothing in Reserve true stories not war stories eBook Jack Lewis
I was introduced to Jack Lewis' writing when I edited it for Crosscut, and I admire it then as I do now. These essays cover a life before, during, and after service in the Iraq War, and as such, they offer an unblinking honesty about it all: the naive but proud notions of service, the valor and vices of battle, and the vicissitudes of middle age. Lewis is a clever wordsmith, and his playful prose is backed by a wealth of experience fully lived and amply analyzed. Readers should be prepared to be moved to tears, disgust, and laughter by turns in these pages. They may find themselves looking up from their Kindle to quote from the book: "Soldiers may come and soldiers may go, but the bureaucracy of armies is immortal and immutable." "There's no better tool in the world than a switched-on soldier." "Any problems more complicated than eating, sleeping, and mission prep could be saved until you got home. It's a savings plan for personal problems that pays you back with interest, compounded hourly." So while the military and motorcycle jargon might make one feel as if peering into a foreign world, there's so much here to grab any reader that the book shouldn't be relegated to only those looking for a good war story, especially since Lewis challenges our very notions about what that is.Product details
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Nothing in Reserve true stories not war stories eBook Jack Lewis Reviews
Over the years I've had many military friends and acquaintances, both active and veteran. I've always enjoyed their company and conversation but I will never be able to fully relate to them. I've never seen the elephant.
My Dad was a World War II vet of the European Theater. He reached the continent in the late winter/early spring of 1945 when the need for combat troops was waning and was instead transferred to the engineers. Though he never saw combat I became convinced that he, like the blind men touching the elephant's parts, saw his glimpses coalesce into the bigger picture. It was an image that impacted him deeply.
Undoubtedly, Jack Lewis has seen the elephant and, thankfully, is willing to share his vision with us. But more than that he has chosen to share Jack Lewis with us. In his outrageously introspective style Mr. Lewis lets us glimpse not just the elephant of combat but also the elephants that come home with many (most? all?) combat veterans.
I've never seen the elephant. But through his eloquent prose - at times bordering on beat poetic - Lewis opens the eyes of we Walter Mitty's and lets us peer into the mind of one who has. Jack Lewis holds nothing in reserve and, to those of us who enjoy our domestic tranquility, "Nothing in Reserve" provides an important glimpse of the costs born by a few Americans on behalf of all.
A few times in my life, I’ve bought a book that impressed me so much that I bought a second copy, so in case I ever have sufficiently poor judgement that I actually lend the book to anyone, I’ll still have a copy. “Nothing In Reserve” is one of those books.
We often express gratitude for the service our armed forces perform, almost always on the other side of the globe, in another world. Sometimes we even thank somebody in person. But what, exactly, are we thinking them for? What is their life like while they’re carrying that uniform? Is it like “MASH”? Or “The Bridge Over The River Kwai”? Perhaps “The Guns Of Navarrone” or “The Deer Hunter”? Veterans who are wincing over those mentions would each have their own story to tell, and “Nothing In Reserve” is Jack Lewis’s. One core sample of the whole of man’s experience of war, representative in some ways, but unique in others. Be sobered by the world the stories show us, but enjoy immensely his telling of them.
My reading time is often broken up into small chunks, so this book organization is perfect for me. Yet it is also a whole that is more than the sum of its chapters.
An engrossing but easy read that walks you through the physical, psychological and philosophical landscape of Jack Lewis the soldier, husband, father and man. It's a personal history, but one the reader can comprehend and perhaps resonate with on some level. His chronicle of his tour of duty in Iraq is pragmatic, revealing and sobering without resorting to sensationalism or heroics. His struggle with PTSD and collapse of his first marriage and eventual redemption also avoids cheap theatrics but in its straight forward, unadorned telling lifts the veil on a chilling condition that lies in wait for all combat veterans and how it affects them and those nearest to them. At other times throughout this chronicle of his life Lewis becomes almost poetic, adding an unexpected dimension to the story and ensuring it is both surprising and satisfying.
I was introduced to Jack Lewis' writing when I edited it for Crosscut, and I admire it then as I do now. These essays cover a life before, during, and after service in the Iraq War, and as such, they offer an unblinking honesty about it all the naive but proud notions of service, the valor and vices of battle, and the vicissitudes of middle age. Lewis is a clever wordsmith, and his playful prose is backed by a wealth of experience fully lived and amply analyzed. Readers should be prepared to be moved to tears, disgust, and laughter by turns in these pages. They may find themselves looking up from their to quote from the book "Soldiers may come and soldiers may go, but the bureaucracy of armies is immortal and immutable." "There's no better tool in the world than a switched-on soldier." "Any problems more complicated than eating, sleeping, and mission prep could be saved until you got home. It's a savings plan for personal problems that pays you back with interest, compounded hourly." So while the military and motorcycle jargon might make one feel as if peering into a foreign world, there's so much here to grab any reader that the book shouldn't be relegated to only those looking for a good war story, especially since Lewis challenges our very notions about what that is.
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