Snapshots Sent Home: From Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine—A Memoir
JT Blatty
Feb 2024 · Elva Resa Publishing
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“... an intimate, finely-written memoir about the truths and realities shared by soldiers everywhere ... devastatingly moving ...”
—Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer, The New Yorker; author of Che Guevara and The Fall of Baghdad
US combat veteran and photographer JT Blatty journeyed to Ukraine in 2018 to capture oral history and portraits of Donbas volunteer soldiers. In frontline bunkers and Kyiv flats, her story began to blend with theirs in a universal bond of combat veterans, compelling her to stay as a new war began.
“... powerful, engaging narrative ... a sense of place and people that is usually only arrived at by being there ..."
—Alexa Dilworth, independent writer and editor; former publishing director and senior editor at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
—Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer, The New Yorker; author of Che Guevara and The Fall of Baghdad
US combat veteran and photographer JT Blatty journeyed to Ukraine in 2018 to capture oral history and portraits of Donbas volunteer soldiers. In frontline bunkers and Kyiv flats, her story began to blend with theirs in a universal bond of combat veterans, compelling her to stay as a new war began.
“... powerful, engaging narrative ... a sense of place and people that is usually only arrived at by being there ..."
—Alexa Dilworth, independent writer and editor; former publishing director and senior editor at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
About the author
JT Blatty graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point and served six years as an active duty US Army officer. She deployed with the first troops into Afghanistan following 9/11 and into Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. After completing her US military service, JT pursued photography and writing as a career. Her work has been published in numerous national and regional publications.
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