The Good Soldiers, (Paperback)

from sarahlh

Reading this felt like sitting in the dark and having a ten-ton weight slowly crush my chest. This account of soldiers during the surge in Iraq is forceful, beautifully written, and will make you break down into tears several times (at least). You want a modern day nonfictional account of wartime...

from nmele

I want the President and every elected federal official, as well as the Secretaries of State and Defense to read this book. Finkel simply portrays the reality of war from the place of the soldiers who fight it and their families. Devastating, and the best argument against war I have read in a lon...

from katkat50

In January, 2007, U.S. Army infantry battalion 2-16 based in Fort Riley, Kansas, was deployed to Iraq as part of the Bush administration's new counterinsurgency strategy popularly known as "the surge." Fifteen months later, what was left of the 2-16 came home from what was originally supposed to ...

from CassiMerten

If you care about anyone who puts their lives, not only on hold, but, on the line in defense of this nation and her people, continue reading. The book, The Good Soldiers written by David Finkel, a staff writer for The Washington Post, is a gritty, in your face look at current warfare. In the book...

from larryerick

I cannot think of a book that has delivered more powerful prose. "An EFP exploding from a trash pile is nothing like an EFP exploding from a water buffalo carcass." That's an example of the more mundane, matter-of-fact narrative. Powerful narrative comes like storm waves throughout the book. It c...