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Originally Posted by Raellus
I heard an interview this morning on NPR with Sebastian Junger, author of A Perfect Storm, about his new book, War. It's about an American platoon manning a remote outpost in Afghanistan that endured near constant combat for several months. It sounds really interesting and I really enjoyed his earlier work. I usually wait for books to come out in paperback but I may end up springing for this one.
Anyone here read it already?
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I just read
War in a couple of sittings and it is very good. Aside from some riveting descriptions of combat, it goes into a lot of depth on the psychology of men in combat and, for someone who's never seen the elephant, it's chock full of useful information. It also deals a lot with what soldiers in a small FOB/outpost do in their down time.
Unlike
Blackhawk Down, it doesn't have a coherent narrative thread- it's more a collection of related events over a two-year period- but it's just about as good. I highly recommend it.
The author was also making an award-winning, feature length documentary while he was researching/reporting the events in the book. It's called
Restrepo and it's not yet been released. I can't wait to see it.