The Forever War
by: Dexter Filkins
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Dewey Decimal Number: 956.70443
EAN: 9780307266392
ISBN: 0307266397
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: September 16, 2008
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Sales Rank: 313
Studio: Knopf
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From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time.
Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prizewinning New York Times correspondent whose work was hailed by David Halberstam as “reporting of the highest quality imaginable,” we witness the remarkable chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, continued with the attacks of 9/11, and moved on to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Filkins’s narrative moves across a vast and various landscape of amazing characters and astonishing scenes: deserts, mountains, and streets of carnage; a public amputation performed by Taliban; children frolicking in minefields; skies streaked white by the contrails of B-52s; a night’s sleep in the rubble of Ground Zero.
We embark on a foot patrol through the shadowy streets of Ramadi, venture into a torture chamber run by Saddam Hussein. We go into the homes of suicide bombers and into street-to-street fighting with a battalion of marines. We meet Iraqi insurgents, an American captain who loses a quarter of his men in eight days, and a young soldier from Georgia on a rooftop at midnight reminiscing about his girlfriend back home. A car bomb explodes, bullets fly, and a mother cradles her blinded son.
Like no other book, The Forever War allows us a visceral understanding of today’s battlefields and of the experiences of the people on the ground, warriors and innocents alike. It is a brilliant, fearless work, not just about America’s wars after 9/11, but ultimately about the nature of war itself.
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- Readable, balanced, fair and relevantDexter Filkins has produced a compelling account of his experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq while ... Read More
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- Powerfully simpleWritten as a series of short passages or vignettes, each addressing a different experience by the ... Read More
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- Opens up new viewsI've read quite a few books about the Iraq war, but none of them really cover the same ground as The ... Read More
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- A dangerous life in an American disaster zoneThis is a great book; easy to read and thought provoking. Filkins introduces us to his world; a choatic ... Read More
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- Brilliantly Layered Impressions of Afghanistan and IraqThe source of THE FOREVER WAR is 561 notebooks that Dexter Filkins filled in a nine year period, when he ... Read More
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