The Good Soldiers by David Finkel

The Good Soldiers by David Finkel

It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. It became known as the surge. Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure Baghdad did not. Well, here are the differences, he told a skeptical nation. Among those listening were the young, optimistic army infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion nicknamed the Rangers. About to head to a vicious area of Baghdad, they decided the difference would be them. Fifteen months later, the soldiers returned home -- forever changed.

What is the true story of the surge? And was it really a success? Those are the questions that the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David Finkel grapples with in his remarkable report from the front lines. He was with Battalion 2-16 in Baghdad almost every grueling step of the way. Combining the action of Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down with the literary brio of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, The Good Soldiers is an unforgettable work of reportage. And in telling the story of these good soldiers, the heroes and the ruined, Finkel has also produced an eternal tale -- not just of the Iraq War, but of all wars, for all time.

Finkel, David: - Serial entrepreneur David Finkel is the CEO of Maui Mastermind(R), one of the world's premier business coaching companies, which has worked with over 100,000 business leaders, helping them grow their companies and get their lives back. David's clients enjoy an average annual growth rate five times higher than the average privately held company in the United States, and at the same time, these business leaders have dramatically decreased their working hours. Over the past twenty years, David and the other Maui coaches and advisors have personally started and scaled companies with an aggregate value of $63 billion. David eats his own cooking which has allowed him the time to start, scale, and sell multiple successful ventures, be on the boards of several other companies, all while holding his working hours to under forty hours per week and taking ten weeks of vacation each year. The Wall Street Journal bestselling author of eleven books, David's syndicated business articles on Inc.com, Fastcompany.com, and Forbes.com have garnered millions of readers. His work has been featured in such prestigious media outlets as the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fox Business, MSNBC, and Inc. Magazine.

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ISBN 13	9780374165734
ISBN 10	0374165734
Title	The Good Soldiers
Author	David Finkel
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Sarah Crichton Books
Year published	2009-09-15
Number of pages	287
Prizes	Winner of Helen Bernstein Book Award 2010, Winner of Lukas Prize Project (Nonfiction) 2010, Winner of ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2010, Winner of Alex Awards 2010
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