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Forever War by Dexter Filkins (2008, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
- PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- ISBN-100307266397
- ISBN-139780307266392
- eBay Product ID (ePID)64333246
Product Key Features
- Book TitleForever War
- Number of Pages384 Pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication Year2008
- TopicTerrorism, Military / Iraq War (2003-2011), Military / Persian Gulf War (1991), General
- IllustratorYes
- GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, History
- AuthorDexter Filkins
- FormatHardcover
Dimensions
- Item Height1.3 in
- Item Weight24.1 Oz
- Item Length9.6 in
- Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
- Intended AudienceTrade
- LCCN2008-011761
- Reviews"Dexter Filkins is the preeminent war correspondent of my generation, fearless, compassionate, and brutally honest. In an age of know-it-all pundits and preening bloggers, Filkins is the real thing. He's been everywhere, he's seen everything, and, miraculously, he's lived to tell the tale.The Forever Waris his astonishing story. It is one of the best books about war that I have ever read. It will stay with me forever." -Jeffrey Goldberg, author ofPrisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide "Dexter Filkins has seen the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan; he has stood in the ruins of the World Trade Center; he has been in the heat of battle in Iraq; indeed, no one else has been closer to the action than this courageous and thoughtful observer. This is a sensational book in the best sense." -Lawrence Wright, author ofThe Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 "The Forever Waris already a classicit has the timeless feel of all great war literature. A lot has been written about Iraq and Afghanistan, but no one has seen as much, survived as much, and registered the horror with such sad eloquence as Dexter Filkins. His combination of courage and sensitivity is so rare that books like his come along only once every major war. This one is ours." -George Packer, author ofThe Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq "Filkins . . . is widely regarded as among the finest war correspondents of this generation. His richly textured book . . . does not editorializea welcome change from the punditry that shapes most writing from these war zones." -Publishers Weekly "A . . . litany of war's savage absurdity . . . Filkins writes with candor and clarity . . . Sharing his deeply humbling, transforming journey, the author tempers numbing details of slaughter and carnage with affecting human stories." -Kirkus "Filkins . . . marshals his broad experience to present a wide-ranging view of this struggle, told through a series of intense, vivid, and startling vignettes. . . . A portrait of the difficulty, complexity, and savagery of a conflict that will be with us for some time." -Jay Freeman,Booklist "The Forever War. . . promises to be one of the year's major books on America's war on terror. Read it and weepfor Afghanistan, for Iraq, and for anyone who has had to witness such devastation." -Sarah Gold, "Notes from the Bookroom", "Harrowingly detailed . . . Filkins makes us see, with almost hallucinogenic immediacy, the true human meaning and consequences of the 'war on terror.'" -The New York Times10 Best Books of 2008 "Filkins's meticulously constructed vignettes . . . illuminate and humanize the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan." -Los Angeles TimesFavorite Books 2008 "The Forever War . . . achieves a gripping, raw immediacy." -The Boston Globe's Year's Best Books "Dexter Filkins'sThe Forever Waris the best piece of war journalism I've ever read. He paints a portrait of war that is so nuanced, so filled with absurdities and heartbreak and unexpected heroes and villains, that it makes most of what we see and hear about Iraq and Afghanistan seem shrill and two-dimensional by comparison. And yet, as tragic as the events he describes are, the book manages to be a thing of towering beauty." -Dave Eggers,GuardianBest Books of the Year "The Forever Waris already a classicit has the timeless feel of all great war literature. Dexter Filkins's combination of courage and sensitivity is so rare that books like his come along only once every major war. This one is ours." -George Packer, author ofThe Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq "Dexter Filkins is the preeminent war correspondent of my generation, fearless, compassionate, and brutally honest.The Forever Waris his astonishing story. It is one of the best books about war that I have ever read. It will stay with me forever." -Jeffrey Goldberg, author ofPrisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide "Dexter Filkins has seen the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan; he has stood in the ruins of the World Trade Center; he has been in the heat of battle in Iraq; indeed, no one else has been closer to the action than this courageous and thoughtful observer. This is a sensational book in the best sense." -Lawrence Wright, author ofThe Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 "Stunning...it is not facetious to speak of work like that of Dexter Filkins as defining the 'culture' of a war...This unforgettable narrative [represents]...a haunting spiritual witness that will make this volume a part of this awful war's history." -Robert Stone, on the front page ofThe New York Times Book Review "Dexter Filkins'sThe Forever War, brutally intimate, compassionate, often poetic accounts of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, is destined to become a classic." -Vanity Fair "Extraordinary . . . if what Michael Herr brought back from Vietnam inDispatcheswas a sort of Jackson Pollockstreaks of blood, trickles of dread, splattershot of hard rock and harder drugsThe Forever Waris like a pointillist Seurat, a neo-Impressionist juxtaposition of spots of pure color with black holes and open wounds." -John Leonard,Harper's "The definitiveand heartbreakingly humanizingreport from the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan . . .The Forever War[is] about all wars, everywhereand a book that will be read fifty years from now." -Andrew Corsello,GQ "Dexter Filkins is one of war writings' modern marvels, a writer of tremendous gifts and appropriate grit to go where others will not." -Henry C. Jackson,Associated Press "The best war reportage you are apt to read in a lifetime." -Joseph C. Goulden,The Washington Times "Unflinching, "The Forever Waris already a classicit has the timeless feel of all great war literature. Dexter Filkins's combination of courage and sensitivity is so rare that books like his come along only once every major war. This one is ours." -George Packer, author ofThe Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq "Dexter Filkins is the preeminent war correspondent of my generation, fearless, compassionate, and brutally honest.The Forever Waris his astonishing story. It is one of the best books about war that I have ever read. It will stay with me forever." -Jeffrey Goldberg, author ofPrisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide "Dexter Filkins has seen the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan; he has stood in the ruins of the World Trade Center; he has been in the heat of battle in Iraq; indeed, no one else has been closer to the action than this courageous and thoughtful observer. This is a sensational book in the best sense." -Lawrence Wright, author ofThe Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 "Stunning...it is not facetious to speak of work like that of Dexter Filkins as defining the 'culture' of a war...This unforgettable narrative [represents]...a haunting spiritual witness that will make this volume a part of this awful war's history." -Robert Stone, on the front page ofThe New York Times Book Review "Dexter Filkins'sThe Forever War, brutally intimate, compassionate, often poetic accounts of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, is destined to become a classic." -Vanity Fair "Extraordinary . . . if what Michael Herr brought back from Vietnam inDispatcheswas a sort of Jackson Pollockstreaks of blood, trickles of dread, splattershot of hard rock and harder drugsThe Forever Waris like a pointillist Seurat, a neo-Impressionist juxtaposition of spots of pure color with black holes and open wounds." -John Leonard,Harper's "The definitiveand heartbreakingly humanizing report from the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan . . .The Forever Waris the most affecting account of how all this madness came to be. Which means it's also the most effective, since madness cannot be explained, only feltand anyone who reads this book is going to feel it in the marrow . . . Few war reporters can match Filkins's ambition and fortitude; even fewer possess his descriptive powers . . .The Forever War[is] about all wars, everywhereand a book that will be read fifty years from now." -Andrew Costello,GQ "[Filkins is] an almost absurdly brave war correspondent . . . his brilliant, sad, unique book . . . may be the most readable book about Iraq. It's certainly one of the most artful. . . We're the better for it." -Hilary Frey,The New York Observer "A kaleidoscope of images and intensity . . . It is written in finely honed bursts of vibrant color that capture the peculiar culture of the war . . . It is a raw and riveting account . . . his honesty in portraying the war implicitly exposes the hollowness of the platitudes used in Washington to defend it." -Chris Hedges,Philadelphia Inquirer "Brilliant, riveting, and deeply disquieting . . . very, very few people have seen as much of the front lines as Filkins, and only a handful have the talent to convey those lines . . .The Forever Waris . . . clear-eyed, unsentimental . . . superb." -Hugh Hewitt,Townhall "Unvarnished and unforgettable." -Esquire "Splendid . . . it shines as a work of literature, il, "Stunning...it is not facetious to speak of work like that of Dexter Filkins as defining the 'culture' of a war...This unforgettable narrative [represents]...a haunting spiritual witness that will make this volume a part of this awful war's history." -Robert Stone, on the front page ofThe New York Times Book Review "Dexter Filkins'sThe Forever War, brutally intimate, compassionate, often poetic accounts of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, is destined to become a classic." -Elissa Schappell,Vanity Fair "Dexter Filkins is the preeminent war correspondent of my generation, fearless, compassionate, and brutally honest. In an age of know-it-all pundits and preening bloggers, Filkins is the real thing. He's been everywhere, he's seen everything, and, miraculously, he's lived to tell the tale.The Forever Waris his astonishing story. It is one of the best books about war that I have ever read. It will stay with me forever." -Jeffrey Goldberg, author ofPrisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide "Dexter Filkins has seen the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan; he has stood in the ruins of the World Trade Center; he has been in the heat of battle in Iraq; indeed, no one else has been closer to the action than this courageous and thoughtful observer. This is a sensational book in the best sense." -Lawrence Wright, author ofThe Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 "The Forever Waris already a classicit has the timeless feel of all great war literature. A lot has been written about Iraq and Afghanistan, but no one has seen as much, survived as much, and registered the horror with such sad eloquence as Dexter Filkins. His combination of courage and sensitivity is so rare that books like his come along only once every major war. This one is ours." -George Packer, author ofThe Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq "Unvarnished and unforgettable." -Esquire "The Forever War. . . promises to be one of the year's major books on America's war on terror. Read it and weepfor Afghanistan, for Iraq, and for anyone who has had to witness such devastation." -Sarah Gold, "Notes from the Bookroom" "In his extraordinaryand extraordinarily importantbook, [Dexter] Filkins does not rush to condemn; his is an impeccably balanced story of hope and despair. Through a series of surreal and jaw-dropping vignettes from Afghanistan and Iraq, each written with considerable literary flare,The Forever Wartakes us to the people affected by these wars in a way no other account has quite managed . . .The Forever Waris indispensible: a lesson in reporting." -James Grant,The Herald
- TitleLeadingThe
- Dewey Edition22
- Dewey Decimal956.7044/3
- SynopsisFrom the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures, in stunning vignettes, snapshots, and episodes, the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. New York Times correspondent Dexter Filkins's work in Iraq was hailed by David Halberstam as reporting of the highest quality imaginable. Now, through Filkins's eyes, we witness the chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, led to the attacks of 9/11, and culminated in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Filkins's camera 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; the days and nights of 9/11 rescue workers. He takes us inside the homes of suicide bombers and into street-to-street combat alongside a battalion of U.S. Marines in Falluja. We meet Iraqi insurgents; an American captain who loses a quarter of his men in eight days; Ahmed Chalabi, who tricked America into war; and Ahmed Shah Masoud, the anti-Taliban rebel killed by Al Qaeda. Like no other book, The Forever War allows us a visceral understanding of the war on terror and of the experiences of the people involved, combatants and victims alike. It is a stunning debut: a brilliant, fearless book about one war and, ultimately, about all war.
- LC Classification NumberDS79.76.F53 2008
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- by blue*skies*ahea...31 Dec, 2008
The Forever War....A must read!
Filkins writes with exceptional grace and power about his experiences as a NYT war correspondent- from 9/11 to Afghanistan to Iraq. Each vignette touches the reader in different ways. There are no judgments of the politics of war; just the haunting recollections of the local people he meets, the young men and women fighting the war, and the people he works with that try to have some sort of normal life in the midst of danger while living there and reporting the news back home. An excellent read.
- by pN8UlX36Q96@Del...05 May, 2010
Eye opening
A good crash course in Middle Eastern culture. This book is great at helping Western society better understand the situation of the people in the Middle East from their many perspectives. The reader begins to see how certain people's reasoning came about, whether you agree with it or not. The Westerner also gets an idea of how desperation has led to trading one bad situation for another.
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