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The Forever War

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 From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable audiobook that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time. Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prize-winning New York Times correspondent, we witness the remarkable chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, continued with the attacks of 9/11, and moved on to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Filkins’s narrative moves across a vast and various landscape of amazing characters and astonishing scenes: a public amputation performed by the Taliban, children frolicking in minefields, skies streaked white by the contrails of B-52’s, a night’s sleep in the rubble of Ground Zero. We venture into a torture chamber run by Saddam Hussein. We go into the homes of suicide bombers, meet Iraqi insurgents, and an American captain who loses a quarter of his men in eight days.

The Forever War allows us a visceral understanding of today’s battlefields and of the experiences of the people on the ground, warriors and innocents alike. It is a brilliant, fearless work, not just about America’s wars after 9/11, but ultimately about the nature of war itself.©2008 Dexter Filkins; (P)2008 Books on Tape Guerres et conflits Militaire Moderne XXIe siècle Guerre Moyen-Orient Iran Guerre du Golfe Iran Iraq War
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I can not recommend this book enough. It entirely changed the way I view the wars in the middle east. Truly insightful and captivating anecdotes that string together into an amazing story. A seemingly unbiased view of all sides of a conflict that really hammers home the fact that this is about real people and the things they have endured. Very heavy subject matter and not for the faint of heart.

Brilliant.

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This is a hard but important book to get through. Filkins matter-of-factly reports terrible acts of violence and destruction in Afghanistan under the Taliban (the first time), Manhattan immediately after the 9/11 attacks, and during the US occupation of Iraq and then country’s descent into bloody insurgency and anarchy. Immersive accounts of suicide bombings, US military operations and firefights, ambushes and roadside bombs, kidnappings, videotaped beheadings, torture. A horrifying and honest look at the brutality and pathos of war, the waste of lives and potential and trust and money, political posturing and and lies and hypocrisy during the attempts to rebuild Iraq, and incredible individual acts of integrity and bravery.

Things reach a surreal peak in Filkins going for runs alone in the streets of Baghdad outside of the protected Green Zone, evading insurgents and criminal kidnapping gangs, IEDs, wild dogs, armed checkpoints. He must have realized that this was suicidal, but he was too numb to stop. Reminded me of Michael Herr’s excellent Dispatches from the Vietnam War.

A harrowing look at America’s War on Terror through the eyes of a war correspondent in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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