The Good Soldiers
$29.97
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
28 August 2011
Summary
The Good Soldiers: A Ground-Level Account of the Iraq War Surge
It was a last-ditch effort in a war spiraling out of control. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced “the surge,” a new strategy for Iraq. “Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure Baghdad did not. Well, here are the differences,” he declared.
Among those listening were the young, optimistic soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion nicknamed the Rang…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781921844461 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1921844469 |
| Series: | The Cost of War |
| Author: | David Finkel |
| Publisher: | Scribe Publications |
| Imprint: | Scribe Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 28 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 275g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 135mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
‘Perhaps the most confronting book written on the Iraq war … it is unflinching in its depiction of the violence and stress without glorifying or excusing its subjects.’
‘From a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer at the height of his powers comes an incandescent and profoundly moving book: powerful, intense, enraging. This may be the best book on war since the Iliad.’ - Geraldine Brooks, author of People of the Book.
About The Author
David Finkel
David Finkel is the national enterprise editor of The Washington Post. He joined the Post in 1990 and has worked for the paper’s national, foreign, and magazine staffs. He has reported from Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe, and throughout the United States, and was part of the Post’s war coverage in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo. Among Finkel’s journalism honours are a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 2006 for a series of stories about US-funded democracy efforts in Yemen. He has been a Pulitzer finalist three other times, for both explanatory reporting and feature writing.
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