Thank You for Your Service

"Award-winning journalist David Finkel’s book Thank You For Your Service is a startlingly intimate and moving portrait of the “after-war” — the enduring emotional wounds of battle for those who’ve returned from America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Finkel has covered those wars from the front lines for The Washington Post, but here he embeds in the suburban homes and broken families of soldiers living with the ghosts of those battles. There have been many articles about post-traumatic stress disorder and the broken state of mental health care for veterans. But in Finkel’s beautifully written and deeply empathetic book, those issues become individual lives and families, impossible to forget."