Warrior, Interrupted
November 24, 2013 by Steve Coll, David Finkel
From April 2007 to April 2008, David Finkel, a MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Washington Post, spent eight months embedded in eastern Iraq with young infantrymen of the 2–16 battalion. In his best-selling The Good Soldiers, Finkel chronicled their harrowing day-to-day experience. In Thank You for Your Service, Finkel follows the men of the 2–16 home on American soil, vividly depicting their struggles readjusting to civilian and family life.
In New York City, Finkel, a master chronicler of the human impact of war, joined his colleague Steve Coll for a wide-ranging conversation.