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A single book might not change the world. But this utterly original meditation on art and war might transform the way you see the world—and that makes all the difference.

“How to live in the face of so much suffering? What difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect, and imperiled world?”

Through a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature, and theology, Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defense of life lived by peace and principle. It is a literary collage with an urgent hope at its core: that art might offer tools for remaking the world.

In Draw Your Weapons, Sentilles tells the true stories of Howard, a conscientious objector during World War II, and Miles, a former prison guard at Abu Ghraib, and in the process she challenges conventional thinking about how war is waged, witnessed, and resisted. The pacifist and the soldier both create art in response to wa

Draw Your Weapons

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    A Hardback by Sarah Sentilles

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Random House USA Inc
      Published 4 July 2017
      ISBN-13 9780399590344
      978-0399590344
      ISBN-10 039959034X
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      The arts: general topics Social and political philosophy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A single book might not change the world. But this utterly original meditation on art and war might transform the way you see the world—and that makes all the difference.

      “How to live in the face of so much suffering? What difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect, and imperiled world?”

      Through a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reporting, visual culture, literature, and theology, Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defense of life lived by peace and principle. It is a literary collage with an urgent hope at its core: that art might offer tools for remaking the world.

      In Draw Your Weapons, Sentilles tells the true stories of Howard, a conscientious objector during World War II, and Miles, a former prison guard at Abu Ghraib, and in the process she challenges conventional thinking about how war is waged, witnessed, and resisted. The pacifist and the soldier both create art in response to wa

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