Thank You For Your Service Book
Thank you for your service by david finkel review.
Thank you for your service book. As he did in the good soldiers finkel absents himself from the narrative immersing the reader in the quotidian life of soldiers and their families. In this hilarious and personal memoir readers ride shotgun alongside former army ranger and private military contractor and current social media phenomenon mat best into the action and its aftermath both abroad and at home. David finkel follows up his book about us soldiers in iraq with a harrowing account of the after war they face coming home.
Thank you for my service book. In this hilarious and personal memoir readers ride shotg. Read 279 reviews from the world s largest community for readers.
I d heard very little about david finkel s thank you for your service before reading it and i hadn t read his previous book the good soldiers so my expectations were muted going into it. In finkel s hands readers can feel what these young men were experiencing and his harrowing story instantly became a classic in the literature of modern war. You don t necessarily need to thank them for their service the pleasure is all theirs.
I d heard very little about david finkel s thank you for your service before reading it and i hadn t read his previous book the good soldiers so. Chris schluep editor at amazon interviews david finkel author of thank you for your service. Finkel chooses to concentrate on those with invisible wounds ptsd and tmi traumatic brain injury the hallmark wounds of the iraq afghanistan wars.
Chris schluep editor at amazon interviews david finkel author of thank you for your service. Thank you for your service is elegantly. Finkel s previous book the good soldiers took him to baghdad iraq in 2007 2008 as he was embedded with the 2 16 infantry battalion.
Published in 2013 it follows the story of an infantry battalion upon their return home from the war in iraq. Thank you for your service will be justly hailed as an essential book for understanding all that came after for the soldiers who occupied iraq. Some books just sneak up on you and you re never the same after.