NONE OF US WERE LIKE THIS BEFORE

Book ID/图书代码： 13850010B38473

English Summary/英文概要： The legacy of torture in the “War on Terror,” told through the story of one tank battalion. “A lot of people look at Adam Gray’s story and say people who commit suicide are cowards or they don’t have, in the army lingo, ‘intestinal fortitude,’ ‘the hoorah’ or whatever. It’s exactly the opposite. Adam was the most gung-ho soldier I ever met in my entire life—the first guy to kick down a door. [But] I think he hated who he was when he was there. And I think he couldn’t deal with what he had done. And I still have trouble with that. It haunts me every day, and it’s something I’ll never get away from.”—Jonathan Millantz, served with Adam Gray in Battalion 1-68 in Iraq. On April 3, 2009, Jonathan Millantz took his own life. Sergeant Adam Gray made it home from a year’s tour in Iraq only to die in his barracks. For more than three years, reporter Joshua Phillips—with the support of Adam’s mother and the cooperation of his Army buddies—investigated Adam’s death. What Phillips uncovered was a story of American veterans psychologically scarred by the abuse they had meted out to Iraqi prisoners. How did US forces turn to torture? Phillips’s narrative recounts the journey of a tank battalion— trained for conventional combat—as its focus switches to guerrilla war and prisoner detention. It tells of how a group of ordinary soldiers, ill trained for the responsibilities foisted upon them, descended into the degradations of abuse. The location is far from CIA prisons and Guantánamo, but the story captures the widespread use and nature of torture in the US armed forces. Based on firsthand reporting from Jordan, Syria and Afghanistan, as well as interviews with soldiers, their families and friends, military officials, and the victims of torture, None of Us Were Like This Before reveals how soldiers, senior officials, and the US public came to believe that torture was both effective and necessary. The book illustrates that the damaging legacy of torture is not only borne by the detainees, but also by American soldiers and the country to which they’ve returned.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在完成了伊拉克為期一年的派遣任務後，中士亞當.格雷終於順利踏上了祖國的土地。但令人痛心疾首的是，武裝分子的子彈沒有擊中他，相反亞當卻倒在了自己的扳機之下 - 就在回國後不久，亞當.格雷中士選擇在營地內飲彈自盡。
亞當去世之後，在其母親以及生前戰友的大力支持下，記者約書亞.菲力浦斯歷時三年多時間，開始對中士的自殺原因展開了深入調查。而隨後的結果卻令人大為震驚：針對早些時候媒體所報出的駐伊美軍虐囚醜聞，實際上，施暴這一事件本身對美軍官兵也同樣造成了巨大的心理陰影及創傷。
為何他們要選擇虐囚？
本書中，菲力浦斯記述了美軍某坦克營的真實經歷。這支原本只適合常規作戰的部隊，最終卻不得不要在伊戰區執行反遊擊作戰，並負責監管看押大量戰俘。就是這樣一群普通士兵，卻在上級的強令下，無奈去執行原本不屬於他們的任務，而這便構成了虐囚的最終誘因。
那裏並非中情局的秘密監獄，亦不是古巴的關塔那摩，但戰俘營中慘無人道的種種暴行，卻充分折射出了長久以來存在於美軍內部的頑疾，令人髮指。
基於伊拉克以及阿富汗戰區的一手報導，再結合上眾多來自美軍官兵、部隊高層、家屬友人，甚至是受虐戰俘本人的訪談紀要，全文深刻地揭示出這樣一個露骨的事實：美軍上下，甚至是國內民眾皆對頻頻爆出的虐囚行為持默許態度，有些人甚至認為此舉是有效且必要的。
本書強調出，作為一種人道主義災難，虐囚行為的受害者並不僅僅局限于戰俘本身，更加令人警醒的是，它將對美軍官兵以及整個美國社會帶來巨大的負面影響，此舉足以引起世人的重視，並加以反思。 (ANDY)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Joshua E. S. Phillips is based in New York City and has reported from Asia and the Middle East. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, Newsweek, Salon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Atlanta Journal–Constitution, among other publications. His radio features have been broadcast on NPR and the BBC. In 2009, Phillips received the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award and the Newspaper Guild’s Heywood Broun Award of Substantial Distinction for his American Radio Works documentary What Killed Sergeant Gray.

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