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Thank You For Your Service
David Finkel
Sarah Crichton Books
October 2013
On Sale: October 1, 2013
272 pages
ISBN: 0374180660
EAN: 9780374180669
Kindle: B00BIV551E
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
From a MacArthur Fellow and the author of The Good
Soldiers, a profound look at life after war
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 Finkel. For The Good
Soldiers, his bestselling account from the front lines
of Baghdad, Finkel embedded with the men of the 2-16
Infantry Battalion during the infamous “surge,” a grueling
fifteen-month tour that changed them all forever. In
Finkel’s hands, readers can feel what these young men
were experiencing, and his harrowing story instantly became
a classic in the literature of modern war. In
Thank You for Your Service, Finkel has done something
even more extraordinary. Once again, he has embedded with
some of the men of the 2-16—but this time he has done it at
home, here in the States, after their deployments have
ended. He is with them in their most intimate, painful, and
hopeful moments as they try to recover, and in doing so, he
creates an indelible, essential portrait of what life after
war is like—not just for these soldiers, but for their
wives, widows, children, and friends, and for the
professionals who are truly trying, and to a great degree
failing, to undo the damage that has been done. The
story Finkel tells is mesmerizing, impossible to put down.
With his unparalleled ability to report a story, he climbs
into the hearts and minds of those he writes about. Thank
You for Your Service is an act of understanding, and it
offers a more complete picture than we have ever had of
these two essential questions: When we ask young men and
women to go to war, what are we asking of them? And when
they return, what are we thanking them for?
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