出版社: Knopf
出版年: 2008-9-16
页数: 384
定价: USD 25.00
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780307266392
内容简介 · · · · · ·
From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time.
Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prizewinning New York Times correspondent whose work was hailed by David Halberstam as “reporting of the highest quality imaginable,” we witness the remarkable chain of e...
From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time.
Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prizewinning New York Times correspondent whose work was hailed by David Halberstam as “reporting of the highest quality imaginable,” 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: deserts, mountains, and streets of carnage; a public amputation performed by Taliban; children frolicking in minefields; skies streaked white by the contrails of B-52s; a night’s sleep in the rubble of Ground Zero.
We embark 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 a battalion of marines. We meet Iraqi insurgents, an American captain who loses a quarter of his men in eight days, and a young soldier from Georgia on a rooftop at midnight reminiscing about his girlfriend back home. A car bomb explodes, bullets fly, and a mother cradles her blinded son.
Like no other book, 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.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Dexter Price Filkins (born c. 1961) is an American journalist who reports for The New York Times Magazine. He has been reporting from Iraq since 2004. His reporting from Afghanistan won him a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 2002.
Prior to joining The New York Times in October, 2000, Filkins was New Delhi bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times for three years.
Filkins received the ...
Dexter Price Filkins (born c. 1961) is an American journalist who reports for The New York Times Magazine. He has been reporting from Iraq since 2004. His reporting from Afghanistan won him a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 2002.
Prior to joining The New York Times in October, 2000, Filkins was New Delhi bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times for three years.
Filkins received the 2004 George Polk Award for War Reporting given annually by Long Island University to honor contributions to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting.
In 2006-07, Filkins was at Harvard University on a Nieman Fellowship.
Filkins' book, The Forever War, is about his experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq. It was published September 16, 2008.
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I haven't read many books written by journalists but this guy is good. Dexter Filkins is a journalist working for NY Times and he had been reporting from Afganistan and Iraq since 2001. This book is a collection of brutal and gruesome tibits form his 900+ n... (展开)Forever War
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0 有用 庄常飞 2010-09-10 22:06:44
感觉就像一篇超长的《纽约时报》周刊的文章。说实话在读了这么多报道后,里面的内容已经有些过时,而且很难有任何出人意料的成分。而且,这种以个人经历为主的书籍很难像Emerald City一样让人一下子看清全景,更多是盲人摸象的感觉。但无论如何,此书依然写的还不错,另外也有些让人感动的地方。
0 有用 抽抽经会被虐 2014-06-28 23:18:05
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
0 有用 BobbyQian 2015-08-18 14:43:29
因为英语水平有限,全文有大量的环境描写,读起来十分的不顺畅。看的相当痛苦。视角个人感觉很有代入感。
0 有用 十五的月亮16元 2020-02-18 22:10:17
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
0 有用 多多钱少少 2017-04-15 16:25:03
战地记者娓娓道来的故事,让人觉得战争残忍而又无意义,一个个生命消逝如儿戏,一群人最后甚至都已忘了当初为何而战。愿这世界上战争越来越少,make love ,not war。
0 有用 十五的月亮16元 2020-02-18 22:10:17
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
0 有用 多多钱少少 2017-04-15 16:25:03
战地记者娓娓道来的故事,让人觉得战争残忍而又无意义,一个个生命消逝如儿戏,一群人最后甚至都已忘了当初为何而战。愿这世界上战争越来越少,make love ,not war。
0 有用 BobbyQian 2015-08-18 14:43:29
因为英语水平有限,全文有大量的环境描写,读起来十分的不顺畅。看的相当痛苦。视角个人感觉很有代入感。
0 有用 inferno_x 2014-12-28 02:45:00
挺好看
0 有用 抽抽经会被虐 2014-06-28 23:18:05
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.