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Blindsided by the Taliban : A Journalist's Story of War, Trauma, Love, and Loss, Hardback Book

Blindsided by the Taliban : A Journalist's Story of War, Trauma, Love, and Loss Hardback

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I turn to see a rocket-propelled grenade screaming toward me.

The ordnance strikes me in the side of the head, instantly blinding me in one eye and crushing the right side of my face. On September 9, 2010, while embedded with an Army unit and talking with locals in a small village in eastern Afghanistan, journalist Carmen Gentile was struck in the face by a rocket-propelled grenade.

Inexplicably, the grenade did not explode and Gentile survived, albeit with the right side of his face shattered and blinded in one eye.

Making matters worse, his engagement was on the ropes and his fiancée absent from his bedside.

Blindsided by the Taliban chronicles the author’s numerous missteps and shortcomings while coming to terms with injury and a lost love.

Inventive and unprecedented surgeries would ultimately save Gentile’s face and eyesight, but the depression and trauma that followed his physical and emotional injuries proved a much harder recovery.

Ultimately, Gentile would find that returning to the front lines and continuing the work he loved was the only way to become whole again. Gentile recounts the physical and mental recovery which included a month of staring only at the ground on doctors’ orders, a battle with opiate-induced constipation and a history of drug addiction, night terrors born of post-traumatic stress, the Jedi-like powers of General David Petraeus, and finding normalcy under falling mortars in an Afghan valley.

The result is an unapologetic, self-deprecating, occasionally cringeworthy, and always candid account of loss and redemption.

Blindsided by the Taliban also features the author’s photos from the field that depict the realities of life in Afghanistan for soldiers and civilians alike.#KissedbytheTaliban

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