The Good Soldiers

Author:   David Finkel
Publisher:   Sarah Crichton Books
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9780374165734


Pages:   287
Publication Date:   15 September 2009
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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. It became known as ?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. What is the true story of the surge? And was it really a success? Those are the questions that the Pulitzer Prize?winning Washington Post reporter David Finkel grapples with in his remarkable report from the front lines. He was with Battalion 2-16 in Baghdad almost every grueling step of the way. 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, Finkel has also produced an eternal tale ? not just of the Iraq War, but of all wars, for all time.

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Author:   David Finkel
Publisher:   Sarah Crichton Books
Imprint:   Sarah Crichton Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.517kg
ISBN:  

9780374165734


ISBN 10:   0374165734
Pages:   287
Publication Date:   15 September 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Undefined
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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<p>From Publishers Weekly: <p> Starred Review. A success story in the headlines, the surge in Iraq was an ordeal of hard fighting and anguished trauma for the American soldiers on the ground, according to this riveting war report. Washington Post correspondent Finkel chronicles the 15-month deployment of the 2-16 Infantry Battalion in Baghdad during 2007 and 2008, when the chaos in Iraq subsided to a manageable uproar. For the 2-16, waning violence still meant wild firefights, nerve-wracking patrols through hostile neighborhoods where every trash pile could hide an IED, and dozens of comrades killed and maimed. At the fraught center of the story is Col. Ralph Kauzlarich, whose dogged can-do optimism&#8212;his motto is &#8220;It&#8217;s all good&#8221;&#8212;pits itself against declining morale and whispers of mutiny. While vivid and moving, Finkel&#8217;s grunt&#8217;s-eye view is limited; the soldiers&#8217; perspective is one of constant improvisatory reaction to attacks and crise


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