Brian Castner: 4 books
All the Ways We Kill and Die
An Elegy for a Fallen Comrade, and the Hunt for His Killer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
“Castner takes us through a kind of moral detective work . . . A brilliant, moving, and troubling portrait of modern American warfare” (Phil Klay, National Book Award–winning author of Redeployment).
The EOD—explosive ordnance disposal—community is tight-knit, and when one of their...
Disappointment River
Finding and Losing the Northwest Passage
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
In 1789, Alexander Mackenzie traveled 1200 miles on the immense river in Canada that now bears his name, in search of the fabled Northwest Passage that had eluded mariners for hundreds of years. In 2016, the acclaimed memoirist Brian Castner retraced Mackenzie's route by canoe in a grueling journey...
The Long Walk
A Story of War and the Life That Follows
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
In the tradition of Michael Herr’s Dispatches and works by such masters of the memoir as Mary Karr and Tobias Wolff, a powerful account of war and homecoming.
Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in...
by Adrian Bonenberger, Brian Castner
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
A decade has passed since boots first hit the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet the war has not ended—only changed. Twenty-five diverse veteran voices reflect the changing face of combat and reflect the haunting realities and truths only fiction can reveal.
These masterfully crafted stories...