EAN: 9780141988863

PLACES AND NAMES - ELLIOT ACKERMAN KARTONIERT (TB)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ARMY MILITARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020 '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 BaghdadAn astonishing account of the nature of war from
acclaimed novelist and decorated former US marine Elliot AckermanIn 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 some time: a realisation that brings them to
a strange kind of intimacy.Elliot Ackerman's extraordinary memoir explores the events that led
him to come to this refugee camp and what  unable to forget his time in battle  he hoped to
find there. Moving between his recent time on the ground as a journalist in Syria and his
Marine deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan  he creates a work of astonishing atmospheric
pressure  one which blends the American experience with the perspectives and stories of the
Arab world  and draws a line between them.At once an intensely personal book about the terrible
lure of combat and a brilliant meditation on the meaning of the past two decades of strife for
the region and the world  Places and Names bids to take its place among our greatest books
about modern war.

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