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Final Salute

A Story of Unfinished Lives

Jim Sheeler - Author

Mark Deakins - Read by

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ISBN 9780143143253 | 6 Hours; 5 CDs | 01 May 2008 | Penguin Audio | 5.74 x 5.23in | 18 - AND UP
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Based on his Pulitzer Prize–winning story, Jim Sheeler’s unprecedented look at the way our country honors its dead; Final Salute is a stunning tribute to the brave troops who have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan and to the families who continue to mourn them.

" 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


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