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

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...  

有些人把游戏玩成战争，有些人把战争当做游戏，夹杂着宗教，恐怖主义，平民，国际组织。人们最热切的希望是和平，最不愿看到那些20岁左右的青年在战争中死去，因为他们和我一样还有很多没有经历的想想就觉得美的事情没有去做呢。喜欢作者作为陈述者的态度，还有译者的用词生动。  

在阅读中真正地体会到伊拉克和阿富汗战场中人民的难言伤痛，人性宗教利益权利各种因素掺杂其中。战争将人无论是身体还是心灵摧残殆尽，思想严重扭曲，有时杀人只不过为了一个随意的理由，暗杀和恐怖袭击处处可见，使得爆炸与死亡似乎已成为常态。 这才是真可怕的，一代代的人民...  

有些人把游戏玩成战争，有些人把战争当做游戏，夹杂着宗教，恐怖主义，平民，国际组织。人们最热切的希望是和平，最不愿看到那些20岁左右的青年在战争中死去，因为他们和我一样还有很多没有经历的想想就觉得美的事情没有去做呢。喜欢作者作为陈述者的态度，还有译者的用词生动。  

用户评价

挺好看

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。

感觉就像一篇超长的《纽约时报》周刊的文章。说实话在读了这么多报道后，里面的内容已经有些过时，而且很难有任何出人意料的成分。而且，这种以个人经历为主的书籍很难像Emerald City一样让人一下子看清全景，更多是盲人摸象的感觉。但无论如何，此书依然写的还不错，另外也有些让人感动的地方。

Only the dead have seen the end of the 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。