Book description
In January 2007, the young and optimistic soldiers of the 2-16, the
American infantry battalion known as the Rangers, were sent to Iraq as
part of the surge. Their job would be to patrol one of the most
dangerous areas of Baghdad. For fifteen months, Pulitzer Prize-winning
reporter David Finkel was with them, following them almost every
grueling step of the way. The resulting account of that time, The Good
Soldiers, is a searing, shattering portrait of the face of modern war.
In telling the story of these soldiers, both the heroes and the
ruined, David Finkel has also written a classic work of war reporting.
