Special Event

America's Other War

Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington

Tuesday, December 4th at 7:30 p.m

Author Sebastian Junger and photographer Tim Hetherington have recently returned from Eastern Afghanistan, where they have been embedded with a platoon of American soldiers at a remote outpost in the rugged Korengal Valley. The unit has borne the brunt of some of the heaviest fighting in Afghanistan to date, coming into contact with Taliban fighters almost daily and taking heavy casualties. Junger and Hetherington will be going back repeatedly to this same platoon, part of a one-year project for Vanity Fair magazine and ABC News. (Their first dispatch will be out in the January issue of the magazine, available December 5th.  That dispatch, "Into The Valley Of Death," is now available on the Vanity Fair website.)

Join them this evening for a talk and slideshow about the “other” war that American soldiers are fighting among the deadly peaks of the Hindu Kush Mountains.

Sebastian Junger is the author of the bestselling book, The Perfect Storm, as well as Fire and A Death in Belmont. As a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine, he has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Chad, Bosnia and Kosovo. His report on war crimes in Kosovo earned him a National Magazine Award in 2000. He is also co-owner of the Half King.

Tim Hetherington is a British photographer and filmmaker. He is best known for his work in West Africa where he lived for much of the last eight years, covering political upheaval in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, and Liberia. His new project in Afghanistan marks a return to image making following a break to work as an investigator for the UN Security Council?s Sanctions Committee.

Seating will be limited, along with some standing room. Doors will close when room is full.

This event is free and open to the public