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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
September 2009
On Sale: September 15, 2009
304 pages
ISBN: 0374165734
EAN: 9780374165734
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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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