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The true cost of the Iraq War is $3 trillion—and counting—rather than the $50 billion projected by the White House.

This sobering study by Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda J. Bilmes casts a spotlight on expense items that have been hidden from the U.S. taxpayer, including not only big-ticket items like replacing military equipment (being used up at six times the peacetime rate) but also the cost of caring for thousands of wounded veterans—for the rest of their lives.

Written in language as simple as the details are disturbing, this book will forever change the way we think about the war.