Dexter Filkins

Broschiertes Buch

The Forever War

Dispatches from the War on Terror

Beschreibung

There are already many books on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and about the War on Terror - but this is something very different. instead, he captures with searing immediacy, the human experience - and tragedy - of war.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 610080
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 130mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9780099523048
• ISBN-10: 0099523043
• Artikelnr.: 26050574

Rezensionen

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