Ellie’s Reviews > Tortured: When Good Soldiers Do Bad Things > Status Update

only read chapters 4 (The Rat) and 5 (Torture Town, USA). not sure yet whether i’ll come back to finish. maybe just me but i find this stuff far more interesting as a portrait of the [small-town rural] US than as one of, like, deeply abhorrent war crimes — the “how could this happen” question turns out to have a pretty easy answer