Why this book exists
A focused place to understand what is happening
There is a question that gets asked of every man and woman who has ever left the British armed forces, and it is asked kindly, and it is the wrong question, and it is doing a great deal of damage. So, did you see much action then? I want to start there, because the man this book is about has been asked it perhaps four hundred times in three years, and every single time he has been invited to look for his keys in a street he has never been in. He is fine about Afghanistan. He can talk about it for an hour and there is nothing in it.
The writing is designed to reduce shame, bring the underlying pattern into view and give you practical ways to respond without pretending that every life follows the same formula.
