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About Sebastian Junger
See more books from this AuthorThere’s too much telling, not enough showing. The result is that for all its closeness to the men in the field, “War” lacks the emotional power it might have had if its characters had been described in more depth.
Read Full Review of WAR | See more reviews from NY Times...a raw, brilliant account of war that may well serve as a final exorcism for one of the most painful passages in American history.
Read Full Review of WAR | See more reviews from NY TimesLoaded with moral and political point, narrative has been recalibrated to record, honour and protest the latest, historically specific instance of futility and mess.
Read Full Review of WAR | See more reviews from GuardianFor those of us who haven’t experienced combat and never will, there’s little to do but marvel at the courage of the men he describes and the unflinching glimpse he offers us into their lives.
Read Full Review of WARTo say Junger is a good writer would be an understatement.
Read Full Review of WAR | See more reviews from Globe and MailJunger prefers machismo, and his unfocused, unilluminating “War” is an annoying mess...
Read Full Review of WARWith his War, Junger strips combat of its Hollywood-style glory and instructs us in its harsh realities. That is a valuable service, and War is a valuable book.
Read Full Review of WARWar is one journalist’s perspective about the most visceral act men commit against each other.
Read Full Review of WARThe book is not so much about battle scenes as it is about the mundaneness and aimlessness of a war that might or might not make the world a better place.
Read Full Review of WARWar is disorienting and...not in the least bit entertaining.
Read Full Review of WARThe book certainly explains less than its grandiose, single-word title promises.
Read Full Review of WARJunger, who writes with the unadorned prose of a journalist, takes readers to forbidding places, into battles so fierce that overheated machine guns jam and gun barrels begin to melt.
Read Full Review of WAR...War feels as if it was rushed into print, containing a single, weak map and no photographs of the soldiers or the landscape that the author describes in such detail.
Read Full Review of WARYou don’t have to be a former citizen to see that Sebastian Junger, War Tourist, has war wrong in a way that’s offensive to soldiers...
Read Full Review of WARJunger’s great eye and honesty about the gamut of emotions that come into play in combat leave one swerving between highs, lows and the surreal...
Read Full Review of WAR...a powerful and high-profile voice writing against and exposing the crimes of the decade-long, brutal and bloody war that has claimed the lives of thousands of Afghans and American soldiers.
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