Book Thank You For Your Service

Thank you for your service is a nonfiction book by pulitzer prize winning journalist david finkel.

Book thank you for your service. Thank you for your service by david finkel review david finkel follows up his book about us soldiers in iraq with a harrowing account of the after war they face coming home geoff dyer. Thank you for your service is elegantly reported free of the entanglements of crusading self aggrandizement on the one hand and on the other an overidentification with its subjects. From surviving a skin infection in the swampy armpit of america aka columbus georgia to kicking down doors on the outskirts of ramadi from blowing up a truck full of enemy combatants to witnessing the effects of a suicide bombing right in front of your face thank you for my service gives readers who love america and love the good guys fresh insight into what it s really like inside the minds of the men and women on the front lines.

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 an expertly reported deftly assembled collage of stories from those veterans their wives or widows and various members of the expanding army of therapists.

Some books just sneak up on you and you re never the same after. 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. The stories of the soldiers and their families portrayed in thank you for your service possess a visceral and deeply affecting power on their own that will haunt readers long after they have finished this book the new york times book review.

From surviving a skin infection in the swampy armpit of america aka columbus georgia to kicking down doors on the outskirts of ramadi from blowing up a truck full of enemy combatants to witnessing the effects of a suicide bombing right in front of your face thank you for my service gives readers who love america and love the good guys fresh insight into what it s really like inside the. 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. Thank you for your service follows several of the soldiers we were introduced to in the first book as they attempt to readjust to life back home.