Roadside bombs. Brutal conditions in hostile territory. Life-shattering injuries. The daunting challenges of returning to civilian life. For many Iraq War veterans, everywhere is the front line.

Yvonne Latty’s In Conflict captures the unheard voices, unpredictable experiences, and personal photographs of 25 Iraq War veterans whose lives have been changed forever. Their stories are as diverse as their backgrounds. Some are permanently disfigured. Others support the war effort and are eager to return to it. Still others feel they fought in vain for all the wrong reasons. Men and women, from all branches and ranks, Republican and Democrat, straight and gay, immigrants and natives, hailing from all parts of the country, these 25 remarkable veterans represent America and its complexity.

Over a million soldiers have served in Iraq, and most will be coming home. In Conflict answers the question so often asked of them: What happened? Their honest answers and unpredictable accounts also make a larger point - that our veterans deserve to be heard. What they say will change the way you think about the war.

Yvonne Latty is the author of We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans from World War II to the War in Iraq. (Harper Collins/Amistad 2004) A native of New York City, She earned a BFA in Film/Television and a MA in Journalism from New York University before becoming a reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News and an adjunct professor of journalism at Villanova University. She lives with her family in Philadelphia, PA.