At Hell’s Gate: A Soldier’s Journey from War to Peace

“Everyone has their Vietnam,” writes Vietnam veteran Claude Thomas. “Everyone has their war. May we embark together on a pilgrimage of ending these wars and truly living peace.” AT HELL’S GATE is Thomas’s dramatic coming-of-age story and also a spiritual travelogue from the horrors of combat to discovering the Buddhist path to healing. This edition includes a timely new afterword - telling the stories of many American veterans of Desert Storm and the Iraq War - and new discussion questions on the nature of violence and war, appropriate for high school and college students, as well as reading groups interested in current events.