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    The Fighters
    The Fighters
    The Fighters
    Audiobook13 hours

    The Fighters

    Written by C. J. Chivers

    Narrated by Scott Brick

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The harrowing account of US soldiers caught in America’s forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that The New York Times calls “relentless...a classic of war reporting,” by Pulitzer Prize winner and former Marine C.J. Chivers.

    More than 2.7 million Americans have served in Afghanistan or Iraq since September 11, 2001, and C.J. Chivers reported on both wars from their beginnings. The Fighters vividly conveys the physical and emotional experience of war as lived by six combatants: a fighter pilot, a corpsman, a scout helicopter pilot, a grunt, an infantry officer, and a Special Forces sergeant.

    Chivers captures their courage, commitment, sense of purpose, and ultimately their suffering, frustration, and moral confusion as new enemies arise and invasions give way to counterinsurgency duties for which American forces were often not prepared.

    The Fighters is a “gripping, unforgettable” (The Boston Globe) portrait of modern warfare. Told with the empathy and understanding of an author who is himself an infantry veteran, The Fighters is “a masterful work of atmospheric reporting, and it’s a book that will have every reader asking—with varying degrees of urgency or anger or despair—the final question Chivers himself asks: ‘How many lives had these wars wrecked?’” (Christian Science Monitor).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateAug 14, 2018
    ISBN9781508260936
    The Fighters
    Author

    C. J. Chivers

    C.J. Chivers is a correspondent for The New York Times and a writer-at-large for the New York Times Magazine. His magazine story “The Fighter” won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing. In 2009 he was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for coverage from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Chivers served as an infantry officer in the United States Marine Corps in the Persian Gulf War and on peacekeeping duty during the Los Angeles riots. He is the author of The Gun and The Fighters. 

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    • 4/5
      Chivers gives us direct personal accounts of the men and women who fight our wars. The stories are riveting first-hand accounts of battle and the horrors that follow and the aftermath of what happens to the fighters afterward. Chivers raises the bigger question that is surprisingly absent from public debate--why are we still in Afghanistan and Iraq after nearly 20 years? Definitely, recommend this book.
    • 5/5
      I have read numerous books detailing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that were informative and well done. This book is unique in that it follows these wars through the eyes of six combatants. Each story is unique and like the wars themselves, do not always have a happy ending. After reading their stories, one can really get a feel for the true price we have paid in these efforts. This was an amazing look at war, why people fight, what they and those who love them have endured and why we owe them so much more than we are doing for them.
    • 5/5
      Afghanistan,Iraq, war-is-hell, war-experiences, nonfiction -----This is one tough read. This journalist shows the waste, poor planning, and ineptitude of self aggrandizement by the Congress and the armed forces brass in this seemingly endless war to save the lives of people who no longer believe us by verbally delving into the lives of a number of combatants in all branches of the US armed forces. If the reader is in a paramedical field or law enforcement, there will be triggers in the graphic descriptions of incidents and results. He covers the time from early days after the attacks in the US to present days, and the reader can see for self that only those who had or have boots on the ground are the ones who really care, and the families suffer right along with them for as long as they can. I requested and received a free review copy from Simon and Schuster Publishers via NetGalley.