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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	:	Deluxe 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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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

Now here is a book that will turn your hair white.It is a confronting book and had me so depressed by the closing chapters that I wanted to find a bar. And get so completely wasted to drown out my misery....and I don't even drink. That's how much it got under my skin.Dropped a star. Really wanted to give it 5. In the end, there were a few things the author did that I didn't like and I made the tough choice to drop a star. 4 stars is still a top rating in my book though.

In-depth study of one battalion deployed to hardest part of Baghdad from beginning of "surge," David Finkel's The Good Soldiers (2009) is one of the most engaging, best written, and most revealing of the Iraq/Afghanistan books. Finkel takes the reader into the points-of-view of all levels of this battalion's experiences and context. Note: I am not going to use names in this review to avoid spoilers. I am also accepting the author's reporting as factually based. I have some background knowledge

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

Wow. This book was so difficult to read, even though it had a lot going for it. The writing style was excellent. I felt like I got to know the people featured in the opening chapters. The author seemed to do a superb job getting into the mindset of these soldiers and showing the shift from hopeful optimism (we're going to win this war) to grim reality (friends are dying every week, and for what?). Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich is often quoted as saying, "It's all good." Later in the book, after

Wow. This book was so difficult to read, even though it had a lot going for it. The writing style was excellent. I felt like I got to know the people featured in the opening chapters. The author seemed to do a superb job getting into the mindset of these soldiers and showing the shift from hopeful optimism (we're going to win this war) to grim reality (friends are dying every week, and for what?). Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich is often quoted as saying, "It's all good." Later in the book, after