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"A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: ""THE NEW YORK TIMES CHICAGO TRIBUNE"" SLATE.COM ""THE BOSTON GLOBE THE KANSAS CITY STAR THE PLAIN DEALER"" (CLEVELAND) ""THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR""""""WINNER OF THE HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January 2007, President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. It became known as ""the surge."" Among those called to carry it out 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. The chronicle of their tour is gripping, devastating, and deeply illuminating for anyone with an interest in human conflict. With ""The""""Good Soldiers,"" Pulitzer Prize-winning ""r""eporter David Finkel has produced an eternal story -- not just of the Iraq War, but of all wars, for all time."

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Finkel has made art out of a defining moment in history. You will be able to take this book down from the shelf years from now and say: 'This is what happened. This is what it felt like.' --Doug Stanton, The New York Times Book Review Let me be direct. The Good Soldiers by David Finkel is the most honest, most painful, and most brilliantly rendered account of modern war I've ever read. I got no exercise at all the day I gulped down its 284 riveting pages. --Daniel Okrent, Fortune Over and over, I cried. I endured nightmares. I have read hundreds of books about war and almost two dozen books about the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Most of them affected me. But none has affected me as deeply as The Good Soldiers . --Steve Weinberg, The Kansas City Star Heart-stopping . . . captures the surreal horror of war. --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times A whole generation of these men will (God willing) be coming home, and The Good Soldiers is as good a

Finkel has made art out of a defining moment in history. You will be able to take this book down from the shelf years from now and say: 'This is what happened. This is what it felt like.' --Doug Stanton, The New York Times Book Review Let me be direct. The Good Soldiers by David Finkel is the most honest, most painful, and most brilliantly rendered account of modern war I've ever read. I got no exercise at all the day I gulped down its 284 riveting pages. --Daniel Okrent, Fortune Over and over, I cried. I endured nightmares. I have read hundreds of books about war and almost two dozen books about the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Most of them affected me. But none has affected me as deeply as The Good Soldiers . --Steve Weinberg, The Kansas City Star Heart-stopping . . . captures the surreal horror of war. --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times A whole generation of these men will (God willing) be coming home, and The Good Soldiers is as good a Finkel has made art out of a defining moment in history. You will be able to take this book down from the shelf years from now and say: 'This is what happened. This is what it felt like.' -Doug Stanton, The New York Times Book Review Let me be direct. The Good Soldiers by David Finkel is the most honest, most painful, and most brilliantly rendered account of modern war I've ever read. I got no exercise at all the day I gulped down its 284 riveting pages. -Daniel Okrent, Fortune Over and over, I cried. I endured nightmares. I have read hundreds of books about war and almost two dozen books about the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Most of them affected me. But none has affected me as deeply as The Good Soldiers . -Steve Weinberg, The Kansas City Star Heart-stopping . . . captures the surreal horror of war. -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times A whole generation of

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