Elliot Ackerman, “Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning”

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“Places and Names” is an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. Elliot Ackerman weaves personal stories of battle into the latticework of a larger reckoning with contemporary geopolitics through his vantage as a journalist in Syria and Istanbul. At once an intensely personal book about the lure of combat and a brilliant meditation on the larger meaning of the past two decades of strife for America, the region and the world, “Places and Names” bids fair to take its place among our greatest books about modern war.

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