The Fighters. Americans In Combat In Afghanistan And Iraq

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Simon And Schuster
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2018
Edition: First Edition

Description: 374 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Unflinching, insightful, and humane. I can think of no other book that takes as its charge so ambitious a goal: to take the full measure of Americas wars in this new century. A landmark work.�Doug Stanton, New York Times bestselling author of Horse Soldiers and In Harms Way Pulitzer Prize winner C.J. Chivers unvarnished account of modern combat, told through the eyes of the fighters who have waged Americas longest wars.More than 2.7 million Americans have served in Afghanistan or Iraq since September 11, 2001. C.J. Chivers reported from both wars from their beginnings. The Fighters vividly conveys the physical and emotional experience of war as lived by six combatants: a fighter pilot, a corpsman, a scout helicopter pilot, a grunt, an infantry officer, and a Special Forces sergeant. Chivers captures their courage, commitment, sense of purpose, and ultimately their suffering, frustration, and moral confusion as new enemies arise and invasions give way to counterinsurgency duties for which American forces were often not prepared. The Fighters is a tour de force, a portrait of modern warfare that parts from slogans to do for American troops what Stephen Ambrose did for the G.I.s of World War II and Michael Herr for the grunts in Vietnam. Told with the empathy and understanding of an author who is himself an infantry veteran, The Fighters presents the long arc of two wars.

ISBN: 9781451676648