The Forever War
Afghanistan and Iraq in fragments, by a reporter who kept going back until the fragments were the story.
Dexter Filkins covered Afghanistan under the Taliban, the invasion of Iraq and the years of insurgency that followed, for the New York Times. The book is deliberately assembled from fragments rather than argued as a thesis, because that is the shape the war had for the people inside it. The central chapter about a Marine killed retrieving his body under fire is the one most often cited, and it earns the placement.
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