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Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the forever war. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. Though these numbers are important, in the forever war, dexter filkins through gutwrenching and touching vignettes repeatedly illustrates their limits and reveals the human. The greatest strength of filkins book is that he shuns passing judgment. The forever war gives us the opportunity to look over the shoulder of someone who has been there, who has spoken to nearly every segment of afghani and iraqi society and has witnessed. As a foreign correspondent for the new york times, dexter filkins has covered the wars in afghanistan and iraq since 2001.
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