Since the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, uncounted a large number of civilians have died in the fighting, and for that reason from the destruction. They are deaths for which no one assumes responsibility, and which were shown, historically, as fallout. No one knows their accurate number.

In The Body personally, Nick McDonell introduces us to some from the civilians who died, combined with the rescue workers who tried to save them, U.S. military grappling using their fatalities, about The Systems personally: A MERCHANT ACCOUNT of Civilian Casualties in American Wars and everyone in between. He displays us how good Americans, outside and inside the government and military, looked from the mounting death toll, even as they claimed to accomplish everything within their power to prevent civilian casualties.

Having a novelist’s eyesight – and hundreds of hours of recorded interviews – McDonell brings us the untold tale from the innocent lifeless in America’s ongoing wars, from leveled metropolitan areas to drone procedure centers to Capitol back again rooms. Once we follow him all over the world, The Physiques in Person increases questions not only about what it means to be an American, but about the worthiness of a life, what it means to risk one, and what’s owed afterward.