- 2008 edition, 368 pages
- Published by The Bodley Head / Random House UK
- Softcover
- Very good condition, minor cover wear, owners stamp on free front end paper
Dispatches from the War on Terror. Index and illustrated.
Many books have already been written about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and about the War on Terror - how they happened and why, how they've succeeded and failed. The Forever War is not that kind of book: rather than argument or hand-wringing, award-winning New York Times war correspondent Dexter Filkins offers us a kaleidoscopic tour of the great conflicts of our time. Through his eyes as a reporter on the ground, we witness the events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, led to the September 11 attacks in 2001, and culminated in the wars of Afghanistan and Iraq.
We move across a vast and various landscape of amazing characters and astonishing scenes. We meet Iraqi insurgents and American soldiers, Afghan rebels and Taliban clerics. We travel to deserts and glaciers and mountaintops, to the scenes of public amputations and executions, to suicide bombings and into the homes of the bombers themselves.
The Forever War will provide a visceral understanding of the War on Terror, its victims, the people who fight it and the way these people feel. Like no other book, it captures with searing immediacy the human experience - and tragedy - of war.
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