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Places and names: on war, revolution and returning

✍ Scribed by Elliot Ackerman

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd;Allen Lane
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Weight
226 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0241355192

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✦ Synopsis

'A superb, unique, and unforgettable story of war and death, fear and cruelty, above all the horrors and allure of combat' Simon Sebag Montefiore

'One of the most profound books I have ever read about the real nature of war and the abstract allure of the ideas and the bloodshed that fuels it' Jon Lee Anderson, author of The Fall of Baghdad

An astonishing account of the nature of war from acclaimed novelist and decorated former US marine Elliot Ackerman

****In a refugee camp in southern Turkey, Elliot Ackerman sits across the table from Abu Hassar, who fought for Al Qaeda in Iraq and has murky connections to the Islamic State. At first, Ackerman pretends to have been a journalist during the Iraq War, but after he establishes a rapport with Abu Hassar, he reveals that in fact he was a Marine. The two men then compare their fighting experiences in the Middle East, discovering they had shadowed each other for...

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