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From a prize-winning New York Times war correspondent, a searing and unforgettable portrait of the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq that tells the human story of the West's confrontation with the Islamic World.
From a prize-winning New York Times war correspondent, a searing and unforgettable portrait of the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq that tells the human story of the West's confrontation with the Islamic World.
Dexter Filkins has been foreign correspondent in Afghanistan and Iraq for the New York Times since 2000. He was a member of the Iraq bureau from 2003 to 2006, a Nieman fellow at Harvard in 2006, and is currently a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government. A Pulitzer Prize finalist for his work from Afghanistan in 2002, he has received numerous awards, including the George Polk awards for his coverage of the assault of Falluja in 2004, and an Overseas Press Club award.
Visceral, evocative and impassioned, reminiscent of the best
journalism from a previous American overseas quagmire: Vietnam.
It's standard practice in cases such as this to rank the book in
question against Michael Herr's classic, Dispatches, and for once
the comparison holds up
*GQ*
Filkins's compassionate and unvarnished book is a vitally important
one
*Daily Telegraph*
The scope of his vision, the characters he encounters ... and the
events he witnesses give this the feeling of The Wire for real and
gone global
*Arena*
As broad, vivid and unbiased a portrait of Iraq as has yet been
written ... a fine, compelling, brilliant book
*Mail on Sunday*
Outstanding... Written in taut, pared-down prose, his book roams
across a desolate urban battlefield where innocent civilians are
dying like flies
*Daily Mail*
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