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Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk: A Novel by Ben Fountain

On May 2, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

Poignant, riotously funny, and exquisitely heartbreaking, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a devastating portrait of our time, a searing and powerful novel that cements Ben Fountain’s reputation as one of the finest writers of his generation.

Wish You Were Here – The Return of a Dead Soldier From a Foreign War by Graham Swift

On April 19, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

Wish You Were Here is both a gripping account of things that touch and test our human core and a resonant novel about a changing England. Rich with a sense of the intimate and the local, it is also, inescapably, about a wider, afflicted world. Moving towards an almost unbearably tense climax, it allows us to feel the stuff of headlines–the return of a dead soldier from a foreign war–as heart-wrenching personal truth.

Dust to Dust: A Memoir by Decorated U.S. Marine Corps Infantry Officer Benjamin Busch

On April 8, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Military, Nonfiction, by Editor

Dust to Dust is an extraordinary memoir about ordinary things: life and death, peace and war, the adventures of childhood and the revelations of adulthood. Benjamin Busch—a decorated U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer who served two combat tours in Iraq, an actor on The Wire, and the son of celebrated novelist Frederick Busch—has crafted a lasting book to stand with the finest work of Tim O’Brien or Annie Dillard.

Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War by Anthony Shadid

On February 19, 2012, in Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, by Editor

In 2003, The Washington Post’s Anthony Shadid went to war in Iraq, but not as an embedded journalist. Born and raised in Oklahoma, of Lebanese descent, Shadid, a fluent Arabic speaker, has spent the last three years dividing his time between Washington, D.C., and Baghdad.

One Hundred and One Nights: A Novel About Life In A War-Ravaged Iraq by Benjamin Buchholz

On January 9, 2012, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

A breathtaking tale of friendship, love, and betrayal, One Hundred and One Nights is an unforgettable novel about the struggle for salvation and the power of family.

Can Intervention Work? (Amnesty International Global Ethics Series) by Rory Stewart and Gerald Knaus

On September 3, 2011, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Political, by Editor

Rory Stewart (author of The Places In Between) and Gerald Knaus distill their remarkable firsthand experiences of political and military interventions into a potent examination of what we can and cannot achieve in a new era of “nation building.”

Sand Queen – The Tale Of Two Women In Iraq by Helen Benedict

On August 30, 2011, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

Nineteen-year-old Kate Brady joined the army to bring honor to her family and democracy to the Middle East. Instead, she finds herself in a forgotten corner of the Iraq desert in 2003, guarding a makeshift American prison. There, Kate meets Naema Jassim, an Iraqi medical student whose father and little brother have been detained in the camp.

A Soldier’s Dream: Captain Travis Patriquin and the Awakening of Iraq by William Doyle

On August 20, 2011, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

Travis Patriquin, a young Special Forces officer, had already won a Bronze Star in Afghanistan before being transferred to Iraq. An Arabic linguist, Patriquin set out to establish a crucial network with tribal leaders built on mutual trust and respect.

The Wreckage: A Thriller by Michael Robotham

On July 9, 2011, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

Billions of dollars are missing from Iraqi banks, and journalist Luca Terracini will risk everything to discover where it is. His Iraqi-American background has made it easier for him to infiltrate the darkest corners of the war, but death of his beloved Nicola in a suicide bombing has made him reckless. He has nothing left to lose.

SHADE IT BLACK: Death and After in Iraq by Jessica Goodell and John Hearn

On June 22, 2011, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

With sensitivity and insight, Jess describes her job retrieving and examining the remains of fellow soldiers lost in combat in Iraq, and the psychological intricacy of coping with their fates, as well as her own. Death assumed many forms during the war, and the challenge of maintaining one’s own humanity could be difficult.

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