Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Fifteen great books about the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan

Jesse Goolsby is an Air Force officer and the author of the novel I’d Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them.

At The Daily Beast he tagged fifteen top books about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, including:
FOBBIT BY DAVID ABRAMS (2012)

Opening:

“They were Fobbits because, at the core, they were nothing but marshmallow.”

Fobbit possesses the finest and most unique narrative voice of our recent war novels. Hilarious, heart-breaking, believable, and at its center, an innovative critique of what we’ve asked of our service members.
Read about the other entries on the list.

Fobbit is among Joel Cunningham's seven sharpest modern satires.

The Page 69 Test: Fobbit.

Writers Read: David Abrams.

--Marshal Zeringue