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Title	:	The Forever War
Author	:	Dexter Filkins
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition (U.S.)
Pages	:	Pages: 342 pages
Published	:	September 16th 2008 by Borzoi Books/Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Categories	:	Nonfiction. History. War. Politics. Military Fiction

The Forever War

Dexter Filkins

Hardcover | Pages: 342 pages

Rating: 4.12 | 9028 Users | 875 Reviews

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From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time.

Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prizewinning New York Times correspondent whose work was hailed by David Halberstam as “reporting of the highest quality imaginable,” 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: deserts, mountains, and streets of carnage; a public amputation performed by Taliban; children frolicking in minefields; skies streaked white by the contrails of B-52s; a night’s sleep in the rubble of Ground Zero.

We embark on a foot patrol through the shadowy streets of Ramadi, venture into a torture chamber run by Saddam Hussein. We go into the homes of suicide bombers and into street-to-street fighting with a battalion of marines. We meet Iraqi insurgents, an American captain who loses a quarter of his men in eight days, and a young soldier from Georgia on a rooftop at midnight reminiscing about his girlfriend back home. A car bomb explodes, bullets fly, and a mother cradles her blinded son.

Like no other book, 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.

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Original Title:	The Forever War
ISBN:	0307266397 (ISBN13: 9780307266392)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Colby Award (2009), Julia Ward Howe Prize (2009), Arthur Ross Book Award Nominee (2009), National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction (2008), Cornelius Ryan Award (2008)

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Ratings: 4.12 From 9028 Users | 875 Reviews

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i was initially irritated by filkins refusal to widen focus and take in the broader picture, yknow, the how and why behind the iraq war -- i wanted a top-down history starting with the geo-political chessboard and ending with boots on the ground. i was quick to realize i had put my own demands, the demands of a history book, on what is something entirely different. filkins knows that, generally speaking, the participants in wars (even in the age of internet, tivo, and cell phone) do not have

5 STARS, one of the best books on the Iraq war (and the Afghan war to a lesser extent) ever written. Featuring large cojones, smashed sterotypes, WTF, tragedy, hopeOK, Mr. Filkins clearly has a pair of big, hairy ones considering the situations he gets himself into voluntarily or haphazardly. Jogging in Baghdad in the midst of the emerging civil war? Meeting with insurgents in Ramadi, sitting with Mahdi Army types in the middle of the siege of Najaf, into Fallujah with the Marines, showing up at

This heartbreaking and graphic daily war diary by a news reporter is a necessary complement to other books on the overarching politics of the war. The tragedy and terror of war comes through clearly. For our fighting men and women, and the people of Iraq, we get a better look at their lives.

The Last WarIntolerance is not an intrinsic feature, it is a derived one. Derived from threat. Threatened religions have always been intolerant, with no exceptions. And threatened societies have always been prone to adopt the militant versions of their religions, hoping to rally for one great push, one blind atrocity before they can resume their daily lives on the other side of the abyss.Media likes to portray this desperate rally as an obscenity, as a characteristic. And that is where brutally

I can't remember who recommended this book, so I don't know who to thank...but I walked away from this book with my mouth open, shaking my head in awe.This man can *write*. He brought scenes from war-ravaged countries into my living room, and found a way to accentuate both the devastation and the quiet small moments, creating a book that horrifies and educates and gives you hope, all at once.Really, read this.

The Forever War is an attempt on the War is Hell theme. Unfortunately theres no perspective, insight, analysis or even poignancy to the writing and the narrative is at best disjointed. Theres very little empathy for the U.S soldiers the author encounters. Theyre all lumped together as clueless as to what theyre fighting for, their method of fighting, and especially understanding the local population. As for the locals themselves they too are treated with a not so subtle level of contempt by the

Dexter Filkins - image from PRH Speakers This is a bleeding, personal image of real-world horror. Filkins dots his canvas largely in red, with the bloodshed he has seen in war, in Afghanistan, Iraq, on 9/11. The book is comprised of many short passages, images of participants, of events, that offer a visceral experience of these zones of death, deceit and confusion. He does not make pronouncements on what he has witnessed, but puts the images out there for the reader to absorb. This is a must