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The Forever War

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER

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The Forever War

By: Dexter Filkins
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From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgetable audiobook that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prize-winning New York Times correspondent, we witness the remarkable chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, continued with the attacks of 9/11, and moved on to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Filkins’s narrative moves across a vast and various landscape of amazing characters and astonishing scenes: a public amputation performed by Taliban, children frolicking in minefields, skies streaked white by the contrails of B-52’s, a night’s sleep in the rubble of Ground Zero. We venture into a torture chamber run by Saddam Hussein. We go into the homes of suicide bombers, meet Iraqi insurgents, and an American captain who loses a quarter of his men in eight days.

Like no other audiobook, The Forever War allows us a visceral understanding of today’s battlefields and of the experiences of the people on the ground, warriors and innocents alike. It is a brilliant, fearless work, not just about America’s wars after 9/11, but ultimately about the nature of war itself.©2008 Dexter Filkins; (P)2008 Random House Audio

Accolades & Awards

National Book Critics Circle Award
2008
Afghan War Biographies & Memoirs Iraq War National Book Critics Circle Award Social Sciences Wars & Conflicts Middle East Military War Iran Gulf War
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In a world where we all understand that something went wrong, this book gives us an insight of the reasons and obliges us to wonder what are our responsibilities and ways of changing for the better our common future.

JL

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A brief and powerful, if not trenchant glimpse at the Longest War through a lens on the ground meeting the people on all sides impacted by the GWOT.

The GWOT Is Ongoing...

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It reads like fiction! Wow!

Good war story

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