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Will They Ever Trust Us Again? brings together hundreds of the letters that sent to Michael Moore – author of the international bestseller Stupid White Men – to show the reality beneath the propaganda.

He’s sparked a furore and turned up the heat by revealing what they didn’t want you to know about the war on terror in Fahrenheit 9/11. Now the ordinary men and women – from GIs serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, mothers and wives at home, veterans who’ve fought around the globe – who’ve been inspired to speak out by Michael Moore have their say.

Their views vary from the Bushwhacked to the patriotic, but they all feel let down by government, they know the human cost of waging wars for the rich – and they’ve had enough.

Angry, moving and funny, this book shows who’s really winning the battle for hearts and minds on the front line…

Review: One novel technique used by war authors, and it is used here by Moore, is to use letters from the soldiers written home as source material. These letters give some insights into the events on the ground as seen by the soldiers.

One of my favourite books is by the author Malcolm Brown. He wrote five or six books on WWI, one being the Imperial war Museum Book of the Western Front. In that particular book, he uses letters from the troops to describe the pointlessness of WWI and the death and fighting faced by the opposing forces at close range. Often he just published their letters with comments. In many cases the soldiers make negative comments about their leaders, especially the military leaders. Nobody would say Brown is a nut, he is considered to be a good writer.

Well we have a similar situation here but less graphic than the movie Saving Private Ryan or a Brown book. I have gone through this new Moore book and some of the ideas are similar to Brown and others from prior wars. But in the modern era we do not have to sift through the old letters sent home by the troops. Michael Moore has received what must be thousands of e-mails. Some of these come from the troops especially in Iraq. He has taken a hundred or so of the most interesting, and without much input or writing he has put together a 200 page book of e-mails mostly from the troops. Each one is a page or two long, but mostly he has selected those that are two pages. Each e-mail has the return e-mail address of the senders plus some other information. At the back he has a list of agencies that help the troops and others with relief work.

Technically speaking Moore is not writing the book, but rather he is gathering and editing these “short stories” as a coherent collection mostly written by the troops. So the views and stories are not those of Moore, per se, but rather he is a vehicle for wider distribution and publication. Of course many of the e-mails are in general sympathy with his anti-war views. They are dated from approximately March 2004 through to July 2004, and are mostly from active soldiers, or those who have recently returned home, or from parents.

So the book is interesting because it is a collection of views from people in the military and what they think of the conflict. Not just one or two complainers, but over 100 letters or mini-stories. There is neither a major editing or spin. It is just their views.