War (concluded)

I've finished Sebastian Junger's War and I have to say: this is the book we've been waiting for. It's the best account of Afghan combat, the best portrait of the modern American infantryman, and the best book about warfare in many, many years.

At the foot of this blog is a quote from a poet whose name I never did catch, and which I came across by accident during one of my first research projects for my MA "programme" in War in the Modern World at King's College London: "What truth soldiers would speak / None would hear, and none repeat."

Well, the soldiers of Battle Company spoke the truth, and Mr. Junger repeated it. This is a wonderful book. Buy it. Read it. Pass it on. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford