The Forever War

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'Filkins's compassionate and unvarnished book is a vitally important oneß
'Outstanding Written in taut, pared-down prose, his book roams across a desolate urban battlefield where innocent civilians are dying like flies' M
'As broad, vivid and unbiased a portrait of Iraq as has yet been written a fine, compelling, brilliant book'
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 exécutions, to suicide bombings and into the homes of the bombers themselves. The result is... Tovább

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'Filkins's compassionate and unvarnished book is a vitally important oneß
'Outstanding Written in taut, pared-down prose, his book roams across a desolate urban battlefield where innocent civilians are dying like flies' M
'As broad, vivid and unbiased a portrait of Iraq as has yet been written a fine, compelling, brilliant book'
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 exécutions, to suicide bombings and into the homes of the bombers themselves. The result is a viscéral understanding of the War on Terror, its victims, the people who fight it and the way these people feel.
'Extraordinary It is so refreshing to read a book about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq which is not an argument. And precisely because of its objectivity, The Forever War is indispensible'
'Viscéral, 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 upK Vissza