The Veterans Book Project

The Veterans Book Project (VBP) offers multi-layered narratives of the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. VBP is a library of 50+ books made collaboratively with US soldiers, Iraqis, and families who have first-hand experience of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Each book is by one author and contains their personal archives of images and stories.

The authors are US military veterans from the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with exceptions including US veterans of the Gulf War and the American War in Vietnam. The authors are people of many ethnicities and nationalities, whose families have lost children and siblings.They are Iraqi and Iraqi Americans who have been displaced by the US-led wars. Each book was made in the US; the authors deploy multiple, intimate histories about ongoing wars that are insufficiently discussed in the US, but which the country leads and fuels.