The Forever War, (Paperback)

from dbeveridge

Vietnam was still fresh when I read Dispatches by Michael Herr. The intimacy and immediacy and apparent formlessness of the book unsettled me, but of course it felt like Vietnam, dark and frightening, shifting and hard to pin down. And now Dexter Filkins has done the same for this too too similar...

from bruchu

The Immorality of War If you read one book this year, Dexter Filkin's "Forever War" should be the one. Filkins has spent the past decade at the center of the two major conflict zones of this generation in Afghanistan and Iraq. To date, nobody has been able to capture the day to day events on the ...

from choochtriplem

An in depth look of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq by the people who live it night and day. The author goes to great detail (and sometimes great danger) to recount the stories of local populations, soldiers, politicians and even insurgents and how the war has effected them and their lives. The a...

from Wheatland

This is an outstanding collection of journalistic snapshots from the post-2001 wars, first in Afghanistan and then Iraq. Each chapter, or chapter section, relates a story or event in anywhere from three to a dozen pages. It's usually a war story in which the author figures personally, such as whe...

from gregorybrown

Already, the Iraq War is fading from our memory. 2003 already seems in the distant past, and the withdrawal in 2011 is getting there. Still wrought with civil war, our attention has already shifted to other wars, both present and potential: Iran, Libya, Syria. This amnesia should be surprising. ...