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17%OFFDexter Filkins - The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror - 9780099523048 - 9780099523048
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The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror

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Description for The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror Paperback. Captures the human experience - and tragedy - of war. This book offers a visceral understanding of the War on the Terror, its victims, the people who fight it and the way these people feel. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1FCA; 3JMC; HBJF; HBJK; HBLX; HBWS4; HBWS5; JPWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 132 x 28. Weight in Grams: 360.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099523048
SKU
9780099523048
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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 ... Read more

Reviews for The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror
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 ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror


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