The harrowing account of US soldiers caught in Americaās forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that The New York Times calls ārelentless...a classic of war reporting,ā by Pulitzer Prize winner and former Marine C.J. Chivers.
More than 2.7 million Americans have served in Afghanistan or Iraq since September 11, 2001, and C.J. Chivers reported on both wars from their beginnings. The Fighters vividly conveys the physical and emotional experience of war as lived by six combatants: a fighter pilot, a corpsman, a scout helicopter pilot, a grunt, an infantry officer, and a Special Forces sergeant.
Chivers captures their courage, commitment, sense of purpose, and ultimately their suffering, frustration, and moral confusion as new enemies arise and invasions give way to counterinsurgency duties for which American forces were often not prepared.
The Fighters is a āgripping, unforgettableā (The Boston Globe) portrait of modern warfare. Told with the empathy and understanding of an author who is himself an infantry veteran, The Fighters is āa masterful work of atmospheric reporting, and itās a book that will have every reader askingāwith varying degrees of urgency or anger or despairāthe final question Chivers himself asks: āHow many lives had these wars wrecked?āā (Christian Science Monitor).