Places and names : on war, revolution, and returning / Elliot Ackerman.

• The revolution is over, or the music will live forever (prologue) -- The triumph of death (Summer 2013) -- The fourth war (Autumn 2013) -- In Dara'a, a spark and fuel (Spring 2011) -- Expatriates (Winter 2014) -- A prayer for Austin Tice (Winter 2014) -- Black in the rainbow, Bergdahl and the whale (Summer 2014) -- The Suleimani photograph (Summer 2014) -- Safe on the Southbank (Summer 2014) -- No friends but the mountains (Autumn 2014) -- Paradox (Autumn 2004) -- What's buried in the Devil's Mountain (Winter 2015) -- My last movie night (Spring 2011) -- The imitation game at Tel Abyad (Summer 2015) -- A thousand discords (Summer 2015) -- A Swiss wedding (Summer 2015) -- Back to the city (Autumn 2016).

• In a refugee camp in southern Turkey, Elliot Ackerman sits across the table from Abu Hassar, who fought for Al Qaeda in Iraq and whose connections to the Islamic State are murky. 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. Ackerman then draws the shape of the Euphrates River on a large piece of paper, and his one-time adversary joins him, filling in the map with the names and dates of where they saw fighting during the war. They discover 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 how he came to this refugee camp and what he hoped to find there. Moving between his recent experiences on the ground as a journalist in Syria and his Marine deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan, he creates a work of astonishing atmospheric pressure. 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 America, the region and the world, Places and Names bids to take its place among our greatest books about modern war. 

Ämnesord

Irakkriget 2003-2011  (sao)

Iraq War, 2003-2011  -- Personal narratives (LCSH)

Iraq War, 2003-2011  (LCSH)

Genre

Självbiografier  (saogf)

Autobiographies  (lcgft)

Personnamn

Ackerman, Elliot

Institutionsnamn

United States Marine Corps -- Officers

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Klassifikation

956.7044/34092 (DDC)

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