A review by jfl
The Good Soldiers, by David Finkel

4.0

An extraordinary view of the American soldier in Iraq during the surge. Finkel captures the war in vivid colors--its strains, pressures and depressions. The young turn old; the strong, painfully resigned to inevitable defeat. His is the single best book that has come out of the war to date. Required reading if we hope to begin to understand the consequences of our middle eastern strategy.