This book turns to virtue language as an important resource for understanding moral injury a form of subjectivity where one feels they can no longer strive to be good as a result of wartime experience. Drawing specifically on Iris Murdochs moral philosophy and examining the experiences of civilians during the Bosnian War 19925 Joseph WiinikkaLydon argues that current research into war and current understandings of subjectivity need new ways to articulate the moral dimension of being a subject if we are to understand how violence affects ones moral being and development. He develops an understanding of the human person as a tensile moral subject one that forefronts the moral challenges and vulnerability inherent in lives affected by war.