The narrative opens without throat-clearing, and per the agreement between Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post reporter David Finkel and Lt. You watch men evolve under fire, and it’s simultaneously poignant and frightening, this blooding of our hometown warriors. As the action grows, as emotions tighten with resolve and hurt, the dialogue grows evermore raw. In that regard, "The Good Soldiers" is not for the timid, or those bothered by soldiers’ combat zone language.
All the while assigned to an area that the battalion’s commander, West Point grad Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Kauzlarich, came to consider an expletive-deleted version of an outhouse without the house. There is no other book about the Iraq War that has given us such a full-color spectrum of soldiers living (and fighting, dying and being horribly wounded) day to day, month to month during their entire tour of duty. By now one may ask: Why haven’t I been told such things before? And still the tension builds finally there is an unexpected human crescendo.
Perhaps a bit too easy, for readers can find themselves suddenly stunned, maybe breathless, even tearful. It's well-crafted sentences and fluid transitions make it easy to read, to follow, to understand. "The Good Soldiers" is a true narrative of a 15-month tour of duty of one US Army infantry battalion while at war in Iraq.
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