David Finkel is a senior writer-in-residence at the Center for a New American Security and the national enterprise editor at The Washington Post. He is the recipient of the MacArther "Genius" Fellowship. Finkel won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 2006 for a series of stories about U.S.-funded democracy efforts in Yemen. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife and two daughters.
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WINNER OF THE HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN
JOURNALISM "Finkel has made art out of a defining moment in
history. You will be able to take this book down from the shelf
years from now and say: 'This is what happened. This is what it
felt like.'" --Doug Stanton, The New York Times Book Review "Let me
be direct. The Good Soldiers by David Finkel is the most honest,
most painful, and most brilliantly rendered account of modern war
I've ever read. I got no exercise at all the day I gulped down its
284 riveting pages." --Daniel Okrent, Fortune "Over and over, I
cried. I endured nightmares. I have read hundreds of books about
war and almost two dozen books about the U.S. invasions of
Afghanistan and Iraq. Most of them affected me. But none has
affected me as deeply as The Good Soldiers." --Steve Weinberg, The
Kansas City Star "Heart-stopping . . . captures the surreal horror
of war." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "A whole generation
of these men will (God willing) be coming home, and The Good
Soldiers is as good a guide as I can imagine to who they'll be when
they get here." --Devin Friedman, GQ "[A] new classic . . . the
reader cannot get enough . . . As a compelling read, The Good
Soldiers is all good." --J. Ford Huffman, Military Times "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 "Vivid and
moving . . .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."
--Publishers Weekly, starred review "A superb account of the
burdens soldiers bear." --Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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