In Standard Operating Procedure, Philip Gourevitch, award-winning journalist and editor of The Paris Review, provides a searing account, based on hundreds of hours of first-hand interviews with the American soldiers who worked as jailers in Saddam Hussein's dungeons at Abu Ghraib, showing how they became both the instruments of, and the victims of, a great injustice, and in the process of dehumanizing their prisoners, they too became dehumanized. Gourevitch has written a startling and perceptive account of the front lines of the war on terror, with a book that makes you see, feel, and above all think about what it means to be human.

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