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Apr 28, 2009 | ISBN 9780143115458 Buy
May 01, 2008 | ISBN 9781440631603 Buy
May 06, 2008 | 339 Minutes Buy
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Apr 28, 2009 | ISBN 9780143115458
May 01, 2008 | ISBN 9781440631603
May 06, 2008 | ISBN 9781429592277
339 Minutes
They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. Since the start of the war in Iraq, Marines like Major Steve Beck found themselves charged with a mission they never asked for and one for which there can be no training: casualty notification. In Final Salute, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jim Sheeler weaves together the stories of the fallen, the broken homes they have left behind, and one man’s effort to help heal the wounds of those left grieving. But it is not a book about war, politics, or liberal vs. conservative. Achingly beautiful and honest, it is a book that every American-every human-can embrace.
Jim Sheeler is the Shirley Wormser Professor of Journalism and Media Writing at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of a Pulitzer Prize–winning newspaper feature on the war in Iraq that led to a book, Final Salute, which… More about Jim Sheeler
” One of the great underreported stories of the Iraq war.” -Janet Maslin, The New York Times ” A must-read account.” –The Wall Street Journal ” A powerful counterpoint to the impersonal statistics and verbal camouflage of military euphemisms that sanitize the true horror of war and dehumanize those who serve.” –The Washington Post Book World
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