Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning

by Elliot Ackerman

Book Overview

From 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 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525559965
• ISBN13: 9780525559962
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"