Pulitzer Prize-wining journalist
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Washington Post and 2012 MacArthur Fellow; author of The Good Soldiers, which follows one battalion into war in Iraq, and Thank You for Your Service,, which examines the lives of those same soldiers back at home
Author David Finkel on the Long Road Home from Iraq During the so-called 2007 "surge" in Iraq, the Washington Post's David Finkel embedded with the 2-16 Battalion in East Baghdad. He produced a book about the realities of warfare. Then he embedded again — with the soldiers as veterans, along with their families. They spoke to him with a degree of candor and openness that makes his new book read like a novel. Thank You for Your Service is being hailed as a masterpiece of its kind, not just by reviewers but by people who try to help those veterans of combat who are forced to struggle to get their civilian lives back together.
Author David Finkel on the Long Road Home from Iraq During the so-called 2007 "surge" in Iraq, the Washington Post's David Finkel embedded with the 2-16 Battalion in East Baghdad. He produced a book about the realities of warfare. Then he embedded again — with the soldiers as veterans, along with their families. They spoke to him with a degree of candor and openness that makes his new book read like a novel. Thank You for Your Service is being hailed as a masterpiece of its kind, not just by reviewers but by people who try to help those veterans of combat who are forced to struggle to get their civilian lives back together.
Author David Finkel on the Long Road Home from Iraq In 2007, during the so-called “surge” in Iraq, David Finkel of the Washington Post embedded with the 2-16 battalion in East Baghdad. He produced a book about the realities of warfare called, The Good Soldiers . Then he embedded again—with the soldiers as veterans, along with their families. They spoke to him with a degree of candor and openness that makes his latest book Thank You For Your Service read like a novel. The book is being hailed as a masterpiece of its kind—not just by reviewers but by people who try to help those veterans of combat who are forced to struggle to get their civilian lives back together.
Bringing the War Home: The War after the War When combat soldiers come home from Iraq or Afghanistan, life is not just about survival any more. For some, it loses its meaning. That's especially true when there are disconnections, not just between war and the politicians who make it happen, but between the soldiers and those they come home to. To better understand the nature of war itself, Pulitzer-Prize winner David Finkel of the Washington Post was embedded for eight months with 800 Army soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas. His book, The Good Soldiers , recounts the experience of these young men and women deployed in a violent suburb of Baghdad, where 350,000 Iraqis lived. On this Memorial Day, we try to connect our listeners with the realities of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which have gone on so long they've become background noise to most Americans.
Bringing the War Home: The War after the War When combat soldiers come home from Iraq or Afghanistan, life is not just about survival any more. For some, it loses its meaning. That's especially true when there are disconnections, not just between war and the politicians who make it happen, but between the soldiers and those they come home to. To better understand the nature of war itself, Pulitzer-Prize winner David Finkel of the Washington Post was embedded for eight months with 800 Army soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas. His book, The Good Soldiers , recounts the experience of these young men and women deployed in a violent suburb of Baghdad, where 350,000 Iraqis lived. On this Memorial Day, we try to connect our listeners with the realities of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which have gone on so long they've become background noise to most Americans.
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