The Fighters Audiobook (Free)

NEW YORK Moments BESTSELLER * “A Common OF Battle REPORTING…Right now there IS NO DOWNTIME WITHIN THIS RELENTLESS BOOK.”—THE BRAND NEW York Times * “REMARKABLE…A MEMORIAL IN PAGES.”—The Washington Post * “GRIPPING AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING.”—USA Today * “EVOCATIVE.”—Web publishers Regular, (Starred Review) * “IT JOINS THE BEST Battle LITERATURE THIS COUNTRY Offers EVER PRODUCED.”—Sebastian Junger, bestselling writer of Tribe and War

Pulitzer Prize champion C.J. Chivers’s unvarnished New York Times bestseller is definitely a chronicle of about The Fighters contemporary combat, told through the eyes of the fighters who’ve waged America’s longest wars: “A classic of war reporting…there is no downtime in this relentless book” (THE BRAND NEW York Times).

More than 2.7 million People in america have got served in Afghanistan or Iraq since September 11, 2001, and C.J. Chivers reported on both wars off their origins. The Fighters vividly conveys the physical and emotional experience of battle as lived by six combatants: a fighter pilot, a corpsman, a scout helicopter pilot, a grunt, an infantry official, and a particular Forces sergeant.

Chivers captures their courage, commitment, feeling of purpose, and ultimately their suffering, disappointment, and moral misunderstandings as fresh enemies occur and invasions cave in to counterinsurgency responsibilities that American forces had been often not ready.

The Fighters is a “gripping, memorable” (The Boston Globe) portrait of contemporary warfare. Told using the empathy and knowledge of an writer who’s himself an infantry veteran, The Fighters is certainly “a masterful function of atmospheric confirming, and it’s a publication that will possess every reader asking—with varying degrees of urgency or anger or despair—the final question Chivers himself asks: ‘How many lives experienced these wars wrecked?’” (Christian Technology Monitor).