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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)

The Good Soldiers

David Finkel

Hardcover | Pages: 287 pages

Rating: 4.24 | 7149 Users | 868 Reviews

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

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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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Revived review. I watched American Sniper and whatever the movie's merits, as usual, there was no attempt to give a political context to the horrors on display. This great book does that. So if anyone wanted to find out exactly what the tours of duty in Baghdad in those years were really like, and what was going off in post-Shock & Awe Iraq, and why the troops were there, read this.Note - this review was written in 2011, way before the rise of ISIS. *****This is a great book, a horror story

This is a book about a Mech Battalion in Baghdad during the Surge and I think adequately captures the perspective of a group of Soldiers at this time of the war. I know the battalion commander personally and can attest that, to the extent possible, it captures the challenges faced by battalion commanders during this period as well. The book is insightful in capturing the Soldiers attitudes as they deal with the struggle against an urban insurgency in Baghdad during this period. Another book,

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, which pretty much sums up the tone of the entire book. Ive lost all hope. I feel the end is near for me, very, very near.Day by day my misery grows like a storm, ready to swallow me whole and take me

Dear Goodreads Web Designer:Your star rating system needs a new button. Perhaps completely off the scale, a little red x labeled "fucking painful, read it anyway." Or something along those lines. Sincerely, KateI didn't like this book. I don't think anyone could like such a bloody first hand look at an army regiment in Baghdad during the Surge. This is a very painful account, which makes me credit and also dislike it. Because any non-sociopath reading about the gazebo at the Brooke Army Medical

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

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

Some of you may remember the book Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green where I started a blog comment war with a friend of the author. I just couldn't stand the attitude of the writer and didn't believe that it was a true memoir. I just didn't think that the war in Afghanistan was really what he said. So I wasn't looking forward to reading this novel by a Pulitzer Prize winning author, because I figured it would be another liberal take on why war is bad.But, oh, I was wrong. This is one of the