Thank You For Your Service
- ISBN-10
- 1922247081
- ISBN-13
- 9781922247087
- Series
- Thank You For Your Service
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-11-14
- Publisher
- Scribe Publications
- Author
- David Finkel
Description
No journalist is better situated to reckon with the psychology of war than David Finkel. In The Good Soldiers, his bestselling account from the front lines of Baghdad, Finkel shadowed the men of a US infantry battalion as they carried out a gruelling 15-month tour that changed all of them forever. Now, Finkel follows many of those same men back home, in a journey that is less about geography than of psychological terrain, undertaken by people trying to heal or at the very least survive. In Thank You for Your Service, Finkel writes with tremendous compassion about the soldiers, and about their partners and children: the heartbroken wife who wonders privately whether her returned husband is going to get better, or kill her; and the heroic victims, with the fresh taste of a gun in their mouth, who will either make the journey back to sanity or to final ruin. Finkel takes us everywhere that the war is seeping into as it infects America: to the courtrooms that are being filled with divorce and abuse cases, and worse; to bars; and to Fort Riley, in the mental-health clinic to which the army is outsourcing its post-traumatic stress disorder cases. Thank You for Your Service is an immense act of understanding — shocking but always riveting, unflinching but deeply humane.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2019-05-18
- 120 pages
- Paperback
- Independently Published
Similar books
-
Thank You for My Service
By Ross Patterson, Mat Best, Nils ParkerAnd for civilians, this is the insider account of military life you won’t find anywhere else, told with equal amounts of heart and balls.
-
The Good Soldiers
By David FinkelAnd in telling the story of these good soldiers, the heroes and the ruined, David Finkel has also produced an eternal tale—not just of the Iraq War, but of all wars, for all time.
-
Summary and Analysis of Thank You for Your Service: Based on the Book by David Finkel
By Worth BooksThis short summary and analysis of Thank You for Your Service includes: Historical context Chapter-by-chapter overviews Profiles of the main characters Important quotes Fascinating trivia Glossary of terms Supporting material to enhance ...
-
A Child of a Veteran: Thank You for Your Service
By Larisa E. Owen PhDThis is a story about children of veterans and how sometimes they are not recognized for their service in the same ways that children of active duty servicemembers are.
-
Beyond "Thank You for Your Service: " The Veteran Champion Handbook for Civilians
By LtcolThis is a one-of-a-kind guidebook for anyone who loves our servicemembers.
-
Thank You For Your Service, Sheep!
By Carmela SnelbakerIn some areas sheep are used to help prevent wildfires. They are able to keep the vegetation down and create an effective firebreak. This is most effective where the wildlands meets urban communities.
-
Thank You Dad For Your Service: Military Soldier Appreciation Gift- Small Lined Journal Notebook
By Kofi AnnanMilitary Appreciation notebook journal diary A novelty design notebook for the men and women in uniform to write in, share their combat experience and stories, meditate and memorialize their thoughts whilst on deployment.
-
Moral Injury Among Returning Veterans: From Thank You for Your Service to a Liberative Solidarity
By Joshua MorrisCarey et al., “Moral Injury,” 1220. 26. D. William Alexander, “Gregory Is My Friend,” in War and Moral Injury: A Reader, ed. Robert Emmet Meagher and Douglas A. Pryer (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2018), 205n13. 27.
-
Ask a Manager: How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of Your Life at Work
By Alison GreenIdeal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better.
-
Afterwar: Healing the Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers
By Nancy ShermanEisenberg, Nancy, and Strayer, Janet (1987). Empathy and its development. Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development. New York: Cambridge University Press. Ekman, Paul (1994). Allemotions are basic.