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Washington Post’s Finkel highlights psychological, social complications wars inflict on soldiers post-deployment

David Finkel, an editor and writer at The Washington Post, spent 15 months on the front lines of Baghdad with the 2-16 Infantry Battalion and wrote the bestselling The Good Soldiers. He followed them home to the U.S. and spent another 14 months with some of the men in the same battalion. In Thank You For Your Service, he explores the damage war has done to the soldiers who returned home. As Quebec Liberal Senator Roméo Dallaire writes in the book’s foreword, the book has both global and timeless relevance.

 

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