The wars of the past decade have been covered by brave and talented reporters, but none has reckoned with the psychology of these wars as intimately as the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David /5(61). It was the last-chance moment of the war. In January , President George W. Bush announced a new strategy for Iraq. It became known as "the surge." Among. · Fast-forward 64 years to , the year the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David Finkel brings to astonishing life in his chronicle Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.
The Good Soldiers Summary. Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Plot Summary of "The Good Soldiers" by David Finkel. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. In January , the young and optimistic soldiers of the , the American infantry battalion known as the Rangers, were sent to Iraq as part of the surge. Their job would be to patrol one of the most dangerous areas of Baghdad. For fifteen months, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Finkel was with them, following them almost every grueling. The Good Soldiers. David Finkel. Scribe, - Battles - pages. 28 Reviews. 'This is the finest book yet written on platoon-level combat in the Iraq War. Unforgettable - raw, moving, and rendered with literary control. No one who reads this book will soon forget its imagery, words, or characters.'. STEVE COLL, author of The Bin Ladens.
David Finkel has created a definitive, first-hand account of 'the poor, bloody infantry' at war. Anyone who has been there will recognise the hard truths at the heart of this narrative - the hours of crushing boredom punctuated by brief periods of gut-wrenching action, where all there is to fall back on is your training, and the knowledge that your mates are with you all 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, David Finkel has also produced an eternal tale—not just of the Iraq War, but of all wars, for all time. The good soldiers from America drive slowly through some of the worst parts of Baghdad and of course they are very frequently blown up. David Finkel reports the story of one army unit between January and April , when the author was with them - in the famous word, "embedded". In those few months, 14 died.
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