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AMAZON 2013 BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR Praise for Thank You for Your Service This is not--nor should it be--an easy book. But it is an essential one. --Elizabeth D. Samet, The New York Times Book Review Embedded with the veterans, their families, their friends, and their counselors, Finkel lights up the lives of these struggling souls, who often compound their real problems by convincing themselves they're 'weak' for 'abandoning' their buddies and seeking treatment... Vivid, compelling, heartrending. --Jeff Stein, Bookforum Together with its masterful prequel The Good Soldiers, [ Thank You for Your Service ] measures the wages of the war in Iraq--the wages of war, period--as well as anything I've read . . . [Finkel] atones for our scant attention by paying meticulous heed. --Frank Bruni, The New York Times I'm urging everyone I know to give Thank You for Your Service just a few pages, a few minutes out of their busy lives. The families honored in this urgent, important book will take it from there. --Katherine Boo, National Book Award-winning author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers Thank You for Your Service is one of the best and truest books I have ever read. David Finkel cuts through all the spin, the excuses, the blowhard politics and mind-deadening metrics to discover the cost of war for the soldiers who fight it and the families they come home to. This extraordinary book will piss you off and break your heart. It will shame you and lift you up. It will bend your mind to the reality of an American war that is now well into its second decade. --Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award and finalist for the National Book Award In this incredibly moving sequel, Finkel reconnects with some of the men of the 2-16--now home on American soil--and brings their struggles powerfully to life . . . Told in crisp, unsentimental prosem

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David Finkel is the author of The Good Soldiers, the bestselling, critically acclaimed account of the US 'surge' during the Iraq War and a New York Times Best Book of the Year. An editor and writer for The Washington Post, Finkel has reported from Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe, and across the United States, and has covered wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Among Finkel's honours are a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 and a MacArthur Foundation 'genius' grant in 2012. He lives in the Washington, DC, area.

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