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After serving five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, American author Elliot Ackerman uses fiction to explore the devastating impacts of war. He talks to Eleanor Wachtel about his powerful new novel, Waiting for Eden.

This week on Writers and Company, host Eleanor Wachtel talks with American writer Ward Just. Just was a well-known journalist in the Sixties, covering politics and later the Vietnam War. After recovering from wounds suffered in Vietnam, Just turned from journalism to fiction. He's been described as "America's most under-appreciated writer" for his novels, which look both at personal and political lives of its characters.