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The Forever War |  | Author: Dexter Filkins
Publisher: Knopf
Category: Book
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Format: Deckle Edge
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 384
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0307266397
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.70443
EAN: 9780307266392
Publication Date: September 16, 2008
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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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 Unique Writing March 8, 2010
Screaming Eagle (Fremont, CA)
Mr. Filkins offers a unique perspective of current two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is an excellent recollection of his experience working in the area before and during these two wars. I highly recommend this book.
Read before taking that job in Iraq or Afghanistan February 26, 2010
Scott M. Beeson (Kabul)
On Kindle. Now that I've been here in Afghanistan for the past 1 1/2 year and previous in Iraq in the 90s, Felkins recounts a collection of personal stories that elicit emotions disturbing. For those who deal daily with the people and do not live in the bubble of a green zone or embassy compound, I recommend this book for the specific reason of developing a story of your own. I recognize that I too encounter many of the same themes daily and wish to capture those in my mind and maybe on paper. How easy it is to feel trapped here and then travel back to the 'other world'...home.
Unsurpassed February 25, 2010
B. Trandem
There are not enough good things to say about this book, which I read in Kindle form. This series of essays not only treats all its characters with sensitivity and compassion, but serves as an exceedingly good introduction to the entire political situation of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Among the very best passages is a story of how a local meat merchant sets up shop at the edge of land mine fields, where he simply waits for goats and sheep to wander in and be blown to smithereens, thereby saving him much of the effort of butchery.
Utterly compelling reading; not to be missed.
So good I read it so quick February 23, 2010
Christopher J. Lowerson (Brooklyn, NY)
This guy was in all of the worst places taliban controled Afghanistan, and the worst neighborhoods of Iraq over a number of years. The stories this guy tells are fascinating told in such detail. His experiences are probably without out parallel.
The level of introspection into each war and country is the best for almost any westerner.
This book is one of the best that Ive read on the subject.
A pulitzer winner and well deserved in my opinion. Such a good book. I would thank the author if I could.
Not what I was expecting. February 10, 2010
Kyle
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this book wanting to get a deep look into an account of how the soldiers functioned in Iraq. An insight by a journalist should be a great place for that (I made that decision after reading Generation Kill).
This isn't the book that accounts firefight after firefight followed by ambush. This book is much better than that. It gives a deep look into the Iraqi people. A look I was not expecting but riveted me so much that I could not put this book down, EVER!
Dexter does a great job in drawing the reader in and not letting them go. This book is a must read!
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