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★ A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR:
1. THE NEW YORK TIMES
2.CHICAGO TRIBUNE
3.SLATE.COM
4. THE BOSTON GLOBE
5. THE KANSAS CITY STAR
6. THE PLAIN DEALER (CLEVELAND)
7. THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
★ WINNER OF THE HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN JOURNALISM
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作者談這本書 http://fora.tv/2010/02/27/David_Finkel_The_Good_Soldiers
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http://blog.udn.com/achou/3938845
Review:
“David Finkel has written the most unforgettable book of the Iraq War, a masterpiece that will far outlast the fighting.”---David Maraniss, author of They Marched into Sunlight
“From a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer at the height of his powers comes an incandescent and profoundly moving book: powerful, intense, enraging. This may be the best book on war since the Iliad.”---Geraldine Brooks, author of People of the Book and March
“This is the best account I have read of the life of one unit in the Iraq War. It is closely observed, carefully recorded, and beautifully written. David Finkel doesn’t just take you into the lives of our soldiers, he takes you deep into their nightmares.”---Thomas E. Ricks, author of Fiasco and The Gamble
“Brilliant, heartbreaking, deeply true. The Good Soldiers offers the most intimate view of life and death in a twenty-first-century combat unit I have ever read. Unsparing, unflinching, and, at times, unbearable.”---Rick Atkinson, author of An Army at Dawn and The Day of Battle
“This is the finest book yet written on the platoon-level combat of 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 Ghost Wars
Starred Review. A success story in the headlines, the surge in Iraq was an ordeal of hard fighting and anguished trauma for the American soldiers on the ground, according to this riveting war report. Washington Post correspondent Finkel chronicles the 15-month deployment of the 2-16 Infantry Battalion in Baghdad during 2007 and 2008, when the chaos in Iraq subsided to a manageable uproar. For the 2-16, waning violence still meant wild firefights, nerve-wracking patrols through hostile neighborhoods where every trash pile could hide an IED, and dozens of comrades killed and maimed. At the fraught center of the story is Col. Ralph Kauzlarich, whose dogged can-do optimism—his motto is “It’s all good”—pits itself against declining morale and whispers of mutiny. While vivid and moving, Finkel’s grunt’s-eye view is limited; the soldiers’ perspective is one of constant improvisatory reaction to attacks and crises, and we get little sense of exactly how and why the new American counterinsurgency methods calmed the Iraqi maelstrom. Still, Finkel’s keen firsthand reportage, its grit and impact only heightened by the literary polish of his prose, gives us one of the best accounts yet of the American experience in Iraq. Photos. (Sept.) ---From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Did the much-vaunted surge of American troops in Iraq work? Yes, said George W. Bush. A soldierly response differed: “I’ve had enough of this bullshit.”---From Kirkus
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel has been sold to Finland, France, Holland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain and Taiwan