Author: elliotackerman

One of NPR’s Best Books of 2019“Lyrical . . . A thoughtful perspective on America’s role overseas.” —Washington PostFrom a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.“War hath determined us.” —John Milton, Paradise LostToward the beginning of Places and Names, … Paradise LostToward the beginning of Places and Names, Elliot Ackerman sits in a refugee camp in southern Turkey, across the table from a man named Abu Hassar, who fought for al-Qaeda in Iraq and whose connections to the Islamic State…

This “devastating” novel (Wall Street Journal) from “the Tim O’Brien of our era” (Vogue) follows the last days of a dying Marine. “Masterly… A sculpture chiseled from the rarest slab of life experience” (The New York Times Book Review).