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A model war correspondent.(The Forever War)(Book review)
The Forever War, by Dexter Filkins (Knopf, 384 pp., $25)
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NEW YORK TIMES correspondent Dexter Filkins has written a gripping book, rich in vivid vignettes of courage, chaos, service, depravity, and death. The Forever War is not history or policy analysis. It is more in the nature of a slide show--a series of brief, often stunning, observations, mainly about combatants, victims, and reporters in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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