New York, NY: Knopf (2008)

First Edition. Advanced Reader. Signed.

Fine in orange publisher wrappers.

This unforgetable book has been hailed as a classic of war reporting in the mold of Michael Herr’s Dispatches and the journalism of Hemingway and Orwell. It is the definitive, front-line account of our conflict with Islamic fundamentalism.

An instant classic of war reporting, The Forever War is the definitive account of America's conflict with Islamic fundamentalism and a searing exploration of its human costs.

Through the eyes of Filkins, a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, we witness the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, the aftermath of the attack on New York on September 11th, and the American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Filkins is the only American journalist to have reported on all these events, and his experiences are conveyed in a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters and astonishing scenes.

Brilliant and fearless, The Forever War is not just about America's wars after 9/11, but about the nature of war itself.

Dexter Filkins was a reporter for the Miami Herald, then the New Delhi bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, and, from 2000, for The New York Times, a reporter in New York, a foreign correspondent in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and a member of the Iraq bureau from 2003 to 2006. He was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University in 2006, and a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in 2007-2008. A Pulitzer Prize finalist for his work from Afghanistan in 2002, he has received numerous awards including a George Polk award for his coverage of the assault of Falluja in 2004, and an Overseas Press Club award for a Times Magazine article on a model soldier who abetted an atrocity in Iraq.