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From the front lines of the fight against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, memorable book that captures the human fact of the best conflict of our time.
Through the sight of Dexter Filkins, the prizewinning New York Times correspondent whose work was hailed by David Halberstam as “reporting of the highest quality imaginable,” we see the remarkable string of happenings that started with the climb of the Taliban in the 1990s, sustained with the attacks of 9/11, and moved on to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Filkins’s narrative movements across a huge and various landscaping of amazing character types and astonishing moments: deserts, mountains, and roads of carnage; a open public amputation performed by Taliban; children frolicking in minefields; skies streaked white by the contrails of B-52s; a nights’s sleep in the rubble of Earth Zero.
We go on a foot patrol through the shadowy streets of Ramadi, venture into a torture chamber run by Saddam Hussein. We go into the homes of suicide bombers and into street-to-street fighting with each other with a battalion of marines. We meet Iraqi insurgents, an American captain who manages to lose a quarter of his men in eight days and nights, and a soldier from Georgia on a rooftop at nighttime reminiscing about his girl back home. A car bomb explodes, bullets fly, and a mom cradles her blinded kid.
Like no other e book, The Forever Warfare allows us a visceral knowledge of today’s battlefields and of the experience of the folks on the floor, warriors and innocents alike. It is a brilliant, fearless work, not simply about America’s wars after 9/11, but ultimately about the nature of warfare itself.
