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100 1 _aFinkel, David,
_d1955-
245 1 0 _aThank you for your service /
_cDavid Finkel.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bSarah Crichton Books/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
_c2013.
300 _a256 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
520 _a"From a MacArthur Fellow and the author of The Good Soldiers, a profound look at life after war No journalist has reckoned with the psychology of war as intimately as David Finkel. In The Good Soldiers, his bestselling account from the front lines of Baghdad, Finkel shadowed the men of the 2-16 Infantry Battalion as they carried out the infamous surge, a grueling fifteen-month tour that changed all of them forever. Now Finkel has followed many of those same men as they've returned home and struggled to reintegrate--both into their family lives and into American society at large. In the ironically named Thank You for Your Service, Finkel writes with tremendous compassion not just about the soldiers but about their wives and children. Where do soldiers belong after their homecoming? Is it possible, or even reasonable, to expect them to rejoin their communities as if nothing has happened? And in moments of hardship, who are soldiers expected to turn to if they feel alienated by the world they once lived in? These are the questions Finkel faces as he revisits the brave but shaken men of the 2-16. More than a work of journalism, Thank You for Your Service is an act of understanding--shocking but always riveting, unflinching but deeply humane, it takes us inside the heads of those who must live the rest of their lives with the chilling realities of war"--
_cProvided by publisher.
520 _a"Finkel, a journalist, follows the soldiers who serve in the Iraq War as they struggle to reintegrate into American society"--
_cProvided by publisher.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 _aIraq War, 2003-2011
_xVeterans
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aIraq War, 2003-2011
_xPsychological aspects.
650 0 _aPost-traumatic stress disorder
_zUnited States.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Military / Veterans.
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650 7 _aHISTORY / Military / United States.
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