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The Forever War Dexter Filkins

The Forever War By Dexter Filkins

The Forever War by Dexter Filkins


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Summary

There are already many books on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and about the War on Terror - but this is something very different. instead, he captures with searing immediacy, the human experience - and tragedy - of war.

The Forever War Summary

The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror by Dexter Filkins

There are already many books on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and about the War on Terror - but this is something very different. In The Forever War, award-winning New York Times correspondent Dexter Filkins does not analyse how these wars happened and why, or where they have succeeded or failed; instead, he captures with searing immediacy, the human experience - and tragedy - of war.

We meet Iraqi insurgents and American soldiers, Afghan rebels and Taliban clerics. We travel to deserts and glaciers and mountaintops, to the scene of public amputations and executions, to suicide bombings and into the homes of the bombers themselves. The result is a visceral understanding of the War on the Terror, its victims, the people who fight it and the way these people feel.

The Forever War Reviews

Visceral, evocative and impassioned, reminiscent of the best journalism from a previous American overseas quagmire: Vietnam. It's standard practice in cases such as this to rank the book in question against Michael Herr's classic, Dispatches, and for once the comparison holds up * GQ *
Filkins's compassionate and unvarnished book is a vitally important one * Daily Telegraph *
The scope of his vision, the characters he encounters ... and the events he witnesses give this the feeling of The Wire for real and gone global * Arena *
As broad, vivid and unbiased a portrait of Iraq as has yet been written ... a fine, compelling, brilliant book * Mail on Sunday *
Outstanding... Written in taut, pared-down prose, his book roams across a desolate urban battlefield where innocent civilians are dying like flies * Daily Mail *

About Dexter Filkins

Dexter Filkins has been foreign correspondent in Afghanistan and Iraq for the New York Times since 2000. He was a member of the Iraq bureau from 2003 to 2006, a Nieman fellow at Harvard in 2006, and is currently a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. A Pulitzer Prize finalist for his work from Afghanistan in 2002, he has received numerous awards, including the George Polk awards for his coverage of the assault of Falluja in 2004, and an Overseas Press Club award.

Additional information

GOR001588378
9780099523048
0099523043
The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror by Dexter Filkins
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
2009-08-27
384
Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards: Nonfiction 2008
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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