A chilling account of the US Army’s notorious kill team in Afghanistan reveals its members strategically planned their civilian executions, with innumerable conversations over the possibility of being caught as they bagged “savages.”

America's longest wars are being fought in faraway countries that until recently were little known to most Americans. Here are a number of recent books that help fill these gaps

War - Sebastian Junger
One of the finest books ever written on what it's like to face combat day to day. On a par with John Ellis' Sharp Edge or John Keegan's Face of Battle, Junger tells the intimate stories of a platoon of marines posted to an isolated lookout and subject to almost daily attacks from Taliban fighters they can rarely see

And we don’t mean BIBLICAL!

It’s just not NEWS, if it’s not MISERABLE, is it? We at GOODBYE want to be different. We are so SICK and TIRED of news channels, who want to be taken SERIOUSLY, seriously thinking in order to do this they have to focus only on WAR!!!! TERROR!!! UNREST!! DISEASE! followed by the economy, sport and a touch of weather.

Is good news that hard to find? Can’t we have a bit of balance?