--- product_id: 1210451 title: "Redeployment Hardcover – March 4, 2014" brand: "phil klay" price: "₱859" currency: PHP in_stock: false reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/1210451-redeployment-hardcover-march-4-2014 store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # Redeployment Hardcover – March 4, 2014 **Brand:** phil klay **Price:** ₱859 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Redeployment Hardcover – March 4, 2014 by phil klay - **How much does it cost?** ₱859 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/1210451-redeployment-hardcover-march-4-2014) ## Best For - phil klay enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted phil klay brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Full description not available ## Images ![Redeployment Hardcover – March 4, 2014 - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61qHJaFhbSL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Good read *by T***S on Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2023* Bought this for my Marine grand son. Very interesting and heartfelt. Some parts were, of course, difficult to read. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars Bringing the War Home *by R***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2014* Bringing the war homeRedeploymentBy Phil Klay. The Penguin Press, New York, 2014. 291 pages. $26.95There is, at first, a deceptive sameness to the voices telling the war stories in Phil Klay’s fiction collection, “Redeployment.” First person, intelligent, observant, clever — the narrators’ rational tone and tight control steadily slide us deeper and deeper into the heads of soldiers who served in Iraq. By the time the excruciating detail, including each soldier’s safeguarded vulnerabilities, bloom into the story’s own unique shape and momentum, we are hooked, uneasy and necessary witnesses. Every war demands its witnesses and Phil Klay’s own service in Iraq is bested by his service to his readers.Klay, a Marine during the surge in Iraq, attended NYU’s Veterans Writing Workshop that was created by the university and Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith. His story “Redeployment” was originally published in Granta and is included in “Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War,” a collection reviewed here last year.This collection should be required reading for anyone who says, “Thank you for your service,” not because you shouldn’t say that but because you should understand the many meanings of “service” and how that service remakes soldiers, their families, their country and the world.What happens when an IED explodes and you receive horrific burns and shrapnel injuries? Jenks tries to articulate this, again and again, in “War Stories.” His burns are so disfiguring that dating, even conversation with his best friend, become strained if not impossible. We see him come to terms with his new life in part through the eyes of his best friend, who accompanies him on an interview with a woman writing a play based on interviews with US soldiers who served in Iraq. The beautiful Sarah, the antithesis of Jenks in almost every way, only wants the most salacious of the details while Jenks explains, to her growing impatience, why he must decide on a perspective rooted in gratitude. His friend Wilson serves as a counterpoint to Jenks’ transformation and Sarah’s greedy search for the bloody details. “To be perfectly honest, “[Jenks] was a worthless piece of s***. No subject for a play, that’s for sure.” I smile. “Good thing he caught on fire, right?”An artillery soldier whose powerful gun — operated by a total of nine Marines — twice blasts a wide area six miles away finds himself wondering what happened. Were there survivors? Who collects the dead? How many died? In “Ten Kliks South,” the soldier goes to the mortuary where one of the morticians asks him to put his wedding ring on the same chain as his dog tags because taking a ring off a dead man, should he be killed, is hard to do. He later watches four Corpsmen carry the body of one fallen America soldier on a stretcher down a road in utter silence. This silent transport continues from plane to truck, from place to place, until the body “traveled to the family of the fallen, where the silence, the stillness, would end.”“Psychological Operations,” one of my favorites in the collection, most effectively tackles the tremendous ambivalence associated with the war in Iraq. Klay uses a number of characters, including the relationship between two students at Amherst — a newly converted Muslim woman, Zara, and a Marine, an Arab who is Coptic Christian and who had served 13 months in Iraq in PsyOps — to explore some of the issues. Their discussion, which leads at one point to Waguih’s close call with the college administrators over a possible death threat Zara perceives, is fraught with suspense, change and emotion. Their discussion leads to Waguih’s surprising revelation and a true but sadly frustrating lack of closure.Another story that marks great change and revelation among its characters is “Money as a Weapons System.” “Success,” says the narrator, “was a matter of perspective.” And the rest of the story explains why this is so, especially in Iraq where everything seems especially hard and goals must be set with an realistic eye for what’s truly possible. Our narrator is a fair, earnest Foreign Service Officer in charge of an embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team in Iraq. He has no project management experience that will help him deal with his goal to get a water treatment plant up and running — especially in Iraq where he must deal with ages-old conflicts between Sunni and Shi’a interests. Here is here we learn how things get down, how goals are downsized and how successes can be dismantled by politics.Each soldier had his or her own response to this war. But the effects are life altering and the experience, while often as short as seven months, is as compact as it is crammed with fissionable emotion. For most soldiers there is no parallel back home. Books like “Redeployment” bring the war home. Besides being a fine work of literature, it is a touchstone for everyone who wants to be open to deeper understanding. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Klay Captures It *by J***S on Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2014* Redeployment is a collection of 12 short stories that detail the experiences of a number of military servicemen, an FSO, and a Chaplin who have encountered Iraq. Told in first person, each story grapples with the complex feelings of these individuals, from those who saw combat to those who operated in support positions. Klay captures a sense of alienation in each story, the feeling of "otherness" participants in war have on returning home, but is cautious to prevent portraying these multifaceted emotions in such a way as to invoke pity. The raw emotion and artful prose presented in this work make it easy to see why this book won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction.I am always hesitant to read war stories and even more hesitant to see war movies. Too often I feel that such books and films glamorize an unglamorous thing,and in the process destroy the more important truths of what war is like, both for those who served on the front lines and for those who were involved but in far less dangerous roles. In other words, we get preached at through maudlin tales that make big statements on the legitimacy of war. Klay, however, explores the human cost -- psychological and otherwise -- as it is, without the embellishment of Hollywood glamor.In every story in Redeployment, we see veterans as they really are: human beings, striving to do good, willing to sacrifice, given to confabulation, falsehood, psychic breaks, telling tall tales just to get laid. We see the dual alienation pressed upon them not only from the horrors of combat but from the burden of societal expectation, the crowd that will thank you for yours service without knowing what that service was. In "Unless It's a Sucking Chest Would" we see the pressures of the self, individuals who feel they have failed to live up to the idea of what a soldier in a war should be, who feel they have sacrificed nothing. And in "Prayer in the Furnace" we see the struggle to justify survival, the uselessness of absolution, the inability of men to stop bad things from happening. In fact, that story has my favorite line in the entire book: "Geared up, Marines are terrifying warriors In grief, they look like children."In "Psychological Operations," Klay even explores the trappings of hero-worship and the detrimental effects of it when truths are told, and the profound uselessness of generalizing the experience of any one soldier, officer, chaplain, FSO, anyone. Sometimes bleak, sometimes funny, all the time raw, Klay has opened a window on the Iraq war in a unique, compelling way. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ph/products/1210451-redeployment-hardcover-march-4-2014](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/1210451-redeployment-hardcover-march-4-2014) --- *Product available on Desertcart Philippines* *Store origin: PH* *Last updated: 2026-05-28*