Yochi Dreazen. (2014). The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War. Crown.

Yochi Dreazen. 2014. The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War. Crown.

Yochi Dreazen, The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War. Crown, 2014.

Yochi Dreazen. The Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War. Crown, 2014.

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     YOCHI DREAZEN, the managing editor of Foreign Policy, is one of the most respected military journalists in the country. He covered the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for The Wall Street Journal and has reported from more than 30 countries. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and other publications. The Invisible Front is his first book and was a finalist for the 2014 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. He lives in Washington, DC.

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The unforgettable story of a military family that lost two sons—one to suicide and one in combat—and channeled their grief into fighting the armed forces’ suicide epidemic.
Major General Mark Graham was a decorated two-star officer whose integrity and patriotism inspired his sons, Jeff and Kevin, to pursue military careers of their own. His wife Carol was a teacher who held the family together while Mark's career took them to bases around the world. When Kevin and Jeff die within nine months of each other—Kevin commits suicide and Jeff is killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq—Mark and Carol are astonished by the drastically different responses their sons’ deaths receive from the Army. While Jeff is lauded as a hero, Kevin’s death is met with silence, evidence of the terrible stigma that surrounds suicide and mental illness in the military. Convinced that their sons died fighting different battles, Mark and Carol commit themselves to transforming the institution that is the cornerstone of their lives.

The Invisible Front is the story of how one family tries to set aside their grief and find purpose in almost unimaginable loss. The Grahams work to change how the Army treats those with PTSD and to erase the stigma that prevents suicidal troops from getting the help they need before making the darkest of choices. Their fight offers a window into the military’s institutional shortcomings and its resistance to change – failures that have allowed more than 3,000 troops to take their own lives since 2001. Yochi Dreazen, an award-winning journalist who has covered the military since 2003, has been granted remarkable access to the Graham family and tells their story in the full context of two of America’s longest wars. Dreazen places Mark and Carol’s personal journey, which begins when they fall in love in college and continues through the end of Mark's thirty-four year career in the Army, against the backdrop of the military’s ongoing suicide spike, which shows no signs of slowing. With great sympathy and profound insight, The Invisible Front details America's problematic treatment of the troops who return from war far different than when they'd left and uses the Graham family’s work as a new way of understanding the human cost of war and its lingering effects off the battlefield.

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   • source: Military Times
   • content: "[An] enthralling and enraging report about the Army's traditional stigma about mental illness."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: "A journalistic tale that shines a revealing--and a disturbing--light on the ongoing emotional legacy of America's two most recent wars."
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   • source: David Finkel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of The Good Soldiers and Thank You For Your Service
   • content: "What a moving book about a remarkable family's heartbreak and courage. The Invisible Front blends compassion and hard-nosed reporting to tell an important story in need of all of the visibility it can get."
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   • source: Thomas E. Ricks, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Fiasco and The Generals
   • content: "This book begins fast and accelerates, telling an astonishing tale of contemporary America. When you read this book, you will likely come away feeling that General Graham and his wife Carol are American heroes--different types than we normally are told about, but true heroes still."
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     August 11, 2014
     Dreazen, deputy editor of Foreign Policy, offers up an often painful family story involving recently retired U.S. Army General Mark Graham, his wife, Carol, and their sons, Jeff and Kevin—both of whom served in the military. Kevin, the high-achieving middle child who suffered from depression, hung himself in 2003. Less than a year later, Jeff was killed in action while serving as an Army officer in Iraq. After Kevin’s suicide the Grahams devoted themselves to making the Army more responsive to mental illness within its ranks. Dreazen makes a convincing case that Mark Graham’s persistence in working on suicide prevention, PTSD treatment, and other issues put a premature end to his military career when he was he was passed over for a third star. Since Mark Graham’s retirement in 2012, he and his wife have devoted themselves to working for organizations dedicated to military suicide prevention. In telling this story, Dreazen leans heavily on the hundreds of hours of interviews he conducted with the Grahams and their friends and family. The result is a journalistic tale that shines a revealing—and a disturbing—light on the ongoing emotional legacy of America’s two most recent wars. Agent: Gary Morris, David Black Literary Agency.

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     A decorated two-star officer, Maj. Gen. Mark Graham lost both his soldier sons, but the death of one by his own hand was treated very differently from the other's death in combat. He and his wife have since advocated for suicide prevention and the compassionate treatment of the families involved. Top-ranked military journalist Dreazen brings us the story.

     Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     October 1, 2014
     

     Dreazen (editor, Foreign Policy), who specializes in covering military affairs, looks at issues of mental health care and treatment in the army. He argues that the army's traditional system of negatively casting mental health issues as potential liabilities has created a situation that puts both soldiers and civilians at risk. The narrative focuses on a story of loss, that of the Graham family, whose one son was fatally wounded by an IED in Iraq and the other committed suicide after serving in the ROTC. The author carefully describes the impact mental health has on one's service in the military and the struggles survivors and sufferers alike experience. By emphasizing the response of patriarch Mark Graham, an army general devoted to changing the stigma of mental illness on the bases under his command, Dreazen presents one possible future for a military that accepts mental health issues on the same footing as physical health concerns. VERDICT Mental health care workers, sociologists, and military historians will find this book a useful first step in a much larger conversation. Readers dealing with mental health issues can take comfort in knowing they are not alone, and others may find motivation in the stories Dreazen relates to help generate change.--Elizabeth Zeitz, Otterbein Univ. Lib., Westerville, OH

     Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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The unforgettable story of a military family that lost two sons—one to suicide and one in combat—and channeled their grief into fighting the armed forces’ suicide epidemic.
Major General Mark Graham was a decorated two-star officer whose integrity and patriotism inspired his sons, Jeff and Kevin, to pursue military careers of their own. His wife Carol was a teacher who held the family together while Mark's career took them to bases around the world. When Kevin and Jeff die within nine months of each other—Kevin commits suicide and Jeff is killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq—Mark and Carol are astonished by the drastically different responses their sons’ deaths receive from the Army. While Jeff is lauded as a hero, Kevin’s death is met with silence, evidence of the terrible stigma that surrounds suicide and mental illness in the military. Convinced that their sons died fighting different battles, Mark and Carol commit...

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