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The Good Soldiers |  | Author: David Finkel
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0374165734
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.70443420973
EAN: 9780374165734
ASIN: 0374165734
Publication Date: September 15, 2009
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Book Description It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it "the surge." "Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure Baghdad did not. Well, here are the differences," he told a skeptical nation. Among those listening were the young, optimistic army infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion nicknamed the Rangers. About to head to a vicious area of Baghdad, they decided the difference would be them.
Fifteen months later, the soldiers returned home forever changed. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David Finkel was with them in Bagdad almost every grueling step of the way.
What was the true story of the surge? Was it really a success? Those are the questions he grapples with in his remarkable report from the front lines. Combining the action of Mark Bowden's Black Hawk Down with the literary brio of Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, The Good Soldiers is an unforgettable work of reportage. And in telling the story of these good soldiers, the heroes and the ruined, David Finkel has also produced an eternal tale--not just of the Iraq War, but of all wars, for all time. Faces of the Surge
Beneath every policy decision made in the highest echelons of Washington about how a war should be fought are soldiers who live with those decisions every day. These are some of the faces of the U.S. strategy known as "the surge," as photographed by David Finkel, author of The Good Soldiers.
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It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. He called it the surge. “Many listening tonight will ask why this effort will succeed when previous operations to secure Baghdad did not. Well, here are the differences,” he told a skeptical nation. Among those listening were the young, optimistic army infantry soldiers of the 2-16, the battalion nicknamed the Rangers. About to head to a vicious area of Baghdad, they decided the difference would be them.
Fifteen months later, the soldiers returned home forever changed. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David Finkel was with them in Bagdad, and almost every grueling step of the way.
What was the true story of the surge? And was it really a success? Those are the questions he grapples with in his remarkable report from the front lines. Combining the action of Mark Bowden’s Black Hawk Down with the literary brio of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, The Good Soldiers is an unforgettable work of reportage. And in telling the story of these good soldiers, the heroes and the ruined, David Finkel has also produced an eternal tale—not just of the Iraq War, but of all wars, for all time.
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 Read, cry, remember November 22, 2009
Will Bullard (Arkansas)
This past week the Army announced the number of suicides among Iraqi veterans is higher than ever before. I've wondered about this statistic for some time. Are soldiers today not as mentally tough as they used to be? Surely Vietnam vets experienced some horrific traumas yet the Iraqi vets were having more problems adjusting to post war life. Now, having read this book it is understandable why so many Iraqi vets are struggling. Their experience was the more horrific because they were under strain every minute of every day.
Even though you only get to know a couple of the soldiers in any depth, the reality and suffering portrayed in this book will probably make you cry more than once. Cry, then remember the suffering these brave men and the innocent Iraqis endured the next time a president sends our national treasure into harm's way.
 Insight Into Their World November 17, 2009
L. Hanback (San Francisco, CA)
I have read many books about the situation in the Middle East to try and understand it a little better from a soldier's perspective. This book is a great narrative on the challenges of the environment, combat, leadership, boredom, fear that are a part of the every day experience of the soldiers in Iraq. We are asking a great deal of our service members and David Finkel's story provides a great deal of insight into their lives in country and what they must confront. It certainly provides some eye opening information about how difficult life can be in Iraq, for all involved. But you are also given an opportunity to appreciate the bonds that can be created there.
LBG November 16, 2009
walkinghoot (Cleveland OH)
Excellent book.It gives en insight into the daily life of combat troops in IRAQ better than I have ever seen.With 4 grandsons in the army this book was very informative.I have never read or viewed any thing like this in the mainstreem press
How the soldiers see Iraq November 16, 2009
Sentinel (Ash Grove Mo. USA)
I've read 3 other books on the Iraq war but this is by far the best! Here you'll see the war the way the 2-16 soldiers see it. It's difficult to put down once you start reading. These kids are the bravest generation.
Puts You Right In The War Like No Other Book I've Read November 15, 2009
John Ireland (Idaho)
They say, "The surge worked!" Read this book to find out at what cost the surge worked. The book follows one Battalion's deployment to Iraq until its return home. Excellent writing entirely in the third person, detailed gut wrenching descriptions of day-to-day ground operations. First book I have finished in years.
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