The Good Soldiers
by:
David Finkel (author)
Relates the author's experiences as an embedded reporter with Battalion 2-16, telling the story of the surge from the perspective of someone who observed the battalion soldiers on a daily basis for a period of eight months.
Relates the author's experiences as an embedded reporter with Battalion 2-16, telling the story of the surge from the perspective of someone who observed the battalion soldiers on a daily basis for a period of eight months.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312430023 (0312430027)
Publish date: August 3rd 2010
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
This book is a soldier’s-eye view of the 2007 troop surge in Iraq. Finkel tells the story of what it was like for one infantry unit from the time of their deployment until their return home (the ones who weren’t killed or seriously injured) a year later. Finkel’s focus in on what the soldiers were e...
This is a not book about platoon level combat despite what the book blurb says. It is a book about soldiers, Iraqis, others getting blown up, maimed, shot, killed, ruined without any overarching theme or story other than it is due to the surge. Here is a journal entry from one of “The Good Soldiers...
Up close and personal, The Good Soldiers is a brutal, bloody, real portrait of contemporary war, complete with excrement-filled trenches, good intentions, too many severed human parts, and some questionable leadership. It is as disturbing as it is informative. What did the surge in Iraq look like fr...
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