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Title	:	The Good Soldiers
Author	:	David Finkel
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 287 pages
Published	:	September 15th 2009 by Sarah Crichton Books (first published January 1st 2009)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. War. History. Military Fiction

The Good Soldiers

David Finkel

Hardcover | Pages: 287 pages

Rating: 4.24 | 7149 Users | 868 Reviews

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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. He called it 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. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David Finkel was with them in Bagdad, and almost every grueling step of the way.

What was the true story of the surge? And was it really a success? Those are the questions he grapples with in his remarkable report from the front lines. 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.

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Original Title:	The Good Soldiers
ISBN:	0374165734 (ISBN13: 9780374165734)
Edition Language:	English URL http://us.macmillan.com/thegoodsoldiers/DavidFinkel
Literary Awards:	J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (2010), Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism (2010), ALA Alex Award (2010), Cornelius Ryan Award (2009)

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I really hate reading about war. I find it nauseating, and I find the whole process of combat stupid.That said - if I had to read a book about the Iraq war, I'm glad it was this one.I was blown away by the author's organization. Although the story is told chronologically, it tells the stories of dozens of different soldiers yet remains very organic in how those histories are told.There are definitely some sections that one should not read while eating, before eating, after eating, or while

Beautifully done and crushingly sad. From their arrival in Iraq for the 2007-2008 "surge" to their departure 15 months later, the book chronicles the experiences of one Army battalion's soldiers, from the commanding officer to the most junior troops, and their families, including the deaths and maimings and in some cases their slow psychological and spiritual disintegration. For me, this was one of those books that left me just sitting after I finished it, unable to stop thinking about the

When I bought this book the lady at the register told me, "You're the first woman to ever buy this book!" Unfortunately no special prize comes with that. But I highly recommend this book to peoples of all genders. I've tried to read several books about the Afghanistan/Iraq wars, but I was never very interested in the long backstory and all the laborious details about politics and behind-doors meetings and whatnot. This book ignores all of that and takes the reader directly to the soldiers on the

Although the writing on the war effort in Iraq and Afghanistan has been solidDoug Stanton's recent Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan (2009), Thomas Ricks's Fiasco (**** Nov/Dec 2006), and Rajiv Chandrasekaran's Imperial Life in the Emerald City (**** Selection Jan/Feb 2007) come to mindDavid Finkel's unflinching reporting brings an immediacy to the war experience that critics welcomed as necessary (despite more than a few

He pulled a piece of copper shrapnel out from the webbing of his fingers. He wore a short sleeve shirt to show off the zigzag scars along his arms. He popped a fake eye made to look like the crosshairs of a rifle scope into his hollow eye socket. He said, I want people to know the price of war (210). This is just one of the wounded soldiers David Finkel writes about in his brutal but compelling book The Good Soldiers. The book chronicles the troops of the 2-16, one of the battalions who served

Now here is a book that will turn your hair white.It is a confronting book and had me so depressed by the closing chapters that I wanted to find a bar. And get so completely wasted to drown out my misery....and I don't even drink. That's how much it got under my skin.Dropped a star. Really wanted to give it 5. In the end, there were a few things the author did that I didn't like and I made the tough choice to drop a star. 4 stars is still a top rating in my book though.

This is very graphic account of the Iraq war from the ground perspective of the American soldier. I am not exactly sure why this title was chosen because I dont get any feeling of goodness coming out of these 273 pages. Instead soldiers die horrifically, are bodily mutilated and will suffer for the rest of their lives. The soldiers who do survive without physical disabilities will doubtless experience deep mental anguish for the duration of their lives. Many of them were taking sleeping pills