'Redeployment' tells powerful stories of war

Many facets of war: Klay’s Redeployment has won rave reviews for taking a multifaceted look at war – as the author puts it, ‘War is not a bunch of people standing around going, ‘War is hell’. It’s people cracking jokes, too’. Photo: AFP

Phil Klay, who served with the US Marines in Iraq, turned to fiction to capture all the pain – and grim humour – of war.

PHIL Klay understands that when you are a veteran of the US Marine Corps, and you write fiction about war, some readers will assume every story is your own.