Places and names reflections on war, revolution, and returning
"War hath determined us ..." - John Milton, Paradise Lost. Toward 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 are murk...
| Main Author: | Ackerman, Elliot (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Penguin Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- 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).