AUDIO

Thank You for Your Service

by David Finkel
7 CDs. retail ed. unabridged. 8 hrs. Macmillan Audio. 2013. ISBN 9781427235336. $34.99; Playaway digital; digital download. HIST
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OrangeReviewStarAfter being embedded with the 2–16 Infantry Battalion during the intense surge campaign in Baghdad, Finkel produced The Good Soldiers. That critically acclaimed tale of the war in Iraq took readers into the soldiers' painful struggle to survive. Here, he follows up, staying close to the soldiers after their deployments end. In American homes and clinics, these veterans, their families, and their caregivers deal with the war's aftermath of PTSD, brain injuries, emotional shrapnel, and, in the midst of all this, spare moments of hope. Finkel's plain-spoken clarity is ably voiced by narrator Arthur Bishop. A story so moving, and so vital, has no need of pyrotechnics.
VERDICT Highly recommended for all listeners.
Reviewed by Kelly Sinclair, Temple P.L., TX , Feb 15, 2014
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