{"product_id":"9781922070708","title":"Thank You for your Service","description":"Author: Finkel, David\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781922070708\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Scribe Publications\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 25 Sep 2013\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNo journalist is better situated to reckon with the psychology of war than David Finkel. In \u003ci\u003eThe Good Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThank You for Your Service\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 mouths, who will either make the journey back to sanity or to final ruin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinkel 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThank You for Your Service\u003c\/i\u003e is an immense act of understanding - shocking but always riveting, unflinching but deeply humane.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e' A  heartbreaking book ... The stories of the soldiers and their families portrayed in Thank You for Your Service possess a visceral and deeply affecting power ... that will haunt readers long after they have finished this book.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Together with its masterful prequel The Good Soldiers,  \u003ci\u003eThank You for Your Service\u003c\/i\u003e  measures the wages of the war in Iraq - the wages of war, period - as well as anything I've read ...  Finkel  atones for our scant attention by paying meticulous heed.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Frank Bruni, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'This is not - nor should it be - an easy book. But it is an essential one.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Elizabeth D. Samet, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48145025204382,"sku":"UBD-9781922070708","price":37.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781922070708.jpg?v=1786878761","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781922070708","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}