Final Salute
A Story of Unfinished Lives
$52.93
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
28 April 2009
Summary
They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. Since the start of the war in Iraq, Marines like Major Steve Beck found themselves charged with a mission they never asked for and one for which there can be no training- casualty notification. In Final Salute, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jim Sheeler weaves together the stories of the fallen, the broken homes they have left behind, and one man’s effort to help heal the wounds of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143115458 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143115456 |
| Author: | Jim Sheeler |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | The Penguin Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 28 April 2009 |
| Weight: | 293g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 140mm x 17mm |
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What They're Saying
Critics Review
One of the great underreported stories of the Iraq war.
” One of the great underreported stories of the Iraq war.”
-Janet Maslin, The New York Times
“ A must-read account.”
-The Wall Street Journal
“ A powerful counterpoint to the impersonal statistics and verbal camouflage of military euphemisms that sanitize the true horror of war and dehumanize those who serve.”
-The Washington Post Book World
About The Author
Jim Sheeler
Jim Sheeler is the Shirley Wormser Professor of Journalism and Media Writing at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper feature on the war in Iraq that led to a book, Final Salute, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award in nonfiction.
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