Final Salute : A Story of Unfinished Lives - Jim Sheeler

Final Salute

A Story of Unfinished Lives

By: Jim Sheeler

Paperback | 28 April 2009 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $49.99

$38.75

22%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $9.69 with

 or 

Aims to ship in 25 to 30 business days

They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. Since the start of the war in Iraq, Marines like Major Steve Beck found themselves charged with a mission they never asked for and one for which there can be no training: casualty notification. In "Final Salute," Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jim Sheeler weaves together the stories of the fallen, the broken homes they have left behind, and one man's effort to help heal the wounds of those left grieving. But it is not a book about war, politics, or liberal vs. conservative. Achingly beautiful and honest, it is a book that every American-every human-can embrace.
Industry Reviews
" One of the great underreported stories of the Iraq war."
-Janet Maslin, The New York Times

" A must-read account."
-The Wall Street Journal

" A powerful counterpoint to the impersonal statistics and verbal camouflage of military euphemisms that sanitize the true horror of war and dehumanize those who serve."
-The Washington Post Book World

More in Historical, Political and Military Biographies

Unleashed - Boris Johnson

Paperback

RRP $49.99

$35.50

29%
OFF
Reagan : His Life and Legend - Max Boot

RRP $74.95

$50.40

33%
OFF
War - Bob Woodward

Hardcover

$39.95

Night : Penguin Modern Classics - Elie Wiesel

RRP $22.99

$17.75

23%
OFF
PATRIOT - Alexei Navalny

Hardcover

RRP $55.00

$39.90

27%
OFF
The Gulag Archipelago : 1918-56 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

RRP $37.99

$33.90

11%
OFF
Wild Swans : Three Daughters Of China - Jung Chang

RRP $24.99

$23.75

One Life : The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton - Barbara Winton
Bennelong and Phillip : A History Unravelled - Kate Fullagar

BLACK FRIDAY

RRP $55.00

$33.00

40%
OFF