Peace Warriors

Twenty years after The Boys from the Barracks-chronicling the attempted coups in the 1980s-Criselda Yabes returned to the military in the field of Muslim Mindanao, where the struggle to find peace is taking place to end one of the country's longest-running insurgencies. Says writer Patricio Abinales: "e;(This book) is, as far as I know, the first intimate look at everyday life inside military camps. Yabes has given us portrait after portrait of soldiers and officers who fight the country's internal wars-in all their nobility and their flaws."e;