The Forever War

Dexter Price Filkins (born c. 1961) is an American journalist who reports for The New York Times Magazine. He has been reporting from Iraq since 2004. His reporting from Afghanistan won him a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 2002.Prior to joining The New York Times in October, 2000, Filkins was New Delhi bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times for three years.Filkins received the 2004 George Polk Award for War Reporting given annually by Long Island University to honor contributions to journalistic integrity and investigative reporting.In 2006-07, Filkins was at Harvard University on a Nieman Fellowship.Filkins' book, The Forever War, is about his experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq. It was published September 16, 2008.

出版者:Knopf

作者:Dexter Filkins

页数:384

出版时间:2008-9-16

价格:USD 25.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780307266392

图书标签:战争英文原版iraqwarnonfictionjournalist非功能性科幻

From the front lines of the battle against Islamic fundamentalism, a searing, unforgettable book that captures the human essence of the greatest conflict of our time.

Through the eyes of Dexter Filkins, the prizewinning New York Times correspondent whose work was hailed by David Halberstam as “reporting of the highest quality imaginable,” we witness the remarkable chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, continued with the attacks of 9/11, and moved on to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Filkins’s narrative moves across a vast and various landscape of amazing characters and astonishing scenes: deserts, mountains, and streets of carnage; a public amputation performed by Taliban; children frolicking in minefields; skies streaked white by the contrails of B-52s; a night’s sleep in the rubble of Ground Zero.

We embark on a foot patrol through the shadowy streets of Ramadi, venture into a torture chamber run by Saddam Hussein. We go into the homes of suicide bombers and into street-to-street fighting with a battalion of marines. We meet Iraqi insurgents, an American captain who loses a quarter of his men in eight days, and a young soldier from Georgia on a rooftop at midnight reminiscing about his girlfriend back home. A car bomb explodes, bullets fly, and a mother cradles her blinded son.

Like no other book, The Forever War allows us a visceral understanding of today’s battlefields and of the experiences of the people on the ground, warriors and innocents alike. It is a brilliant, fearless work, not just about America’s wars after 9/11, but ultimately about the nature of war itself.

读后感

一个晚上的时间就读完这本《跑步，在最绝望的国家》，合上书的那一刻，一股难以名状的复杂情绪奔袭而来，其中有对于那些以各种理由存在的连绵不断之战争的无限痛恨，也有对于那些生活在战乱之中深受其害深受其苦的人们的无限同情。 在这里我毫不犹豫地用了“同情”两个字，因...  

当我轻轻合上书页时，目光平移到书桌上方的世界地图，视野不禁久久的聚焦于地中海东部的中东地区，阿富汗、伊拉克、伊朗、叙利亚、约旦、科威特、沙特、埃及、以色列、巴勒斯坦……似乎也亲临在战火纷飞的城市，呼吸着刺鼻的硝烟，侧听着呼啸的炮弹和连绵不绝的机关枪，仿佛看...  

原著自不必说，一个资深记者，语言流畅，论述翔实，从附注中就能看出来他写书时职业新闻从业人员的严谨。 接下来就要说但是了。 但是，翻译的水准实在是不敢恭维，甚或有些令人恼火。（如果译者本人看到不要傲娇，我也是花钱买了书的，允许我发30块钱的火吧。） 总体评价：...  

用户评价

战地记者娓娓道来的故事，让人觉得战争残忍而又无意义，一个个生命消逝如儿戏，一群人最后甚至都已忘了当初为何而战。愿这世界上战争越来越少，make love ，not war。

因为英语水平有限，全文有大量的环境描写，读起来十分的不顺畅。看的相当痛苦。视角个人感觉很有代入感。

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战地记者娓娓道来的故事，让人觉得战争残忍而又无意义，一个个生命消逝如儿戏，一群人最后甚至都已忘了当初为何而战。愿这世界上战争越来越少，make love ，not war。

Only the dead have seen the end of war.