The Forever War is a non-fiction

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 book

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 by American

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 journalist

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 Dexter Filkins

Dexter Filkins

Dexter Price Filkins is an American journalist known primarily for his coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for The New York Times. He was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his dispatches from Afghanistan, and he won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 as part of a team of New York Times...

 about his observations on assignment in Afghanistan

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 and Iraq

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 during the US invasion of Afghanistan and the Iraq War. The book made the New York Times Book Review list of "10 Best Books of 2008" as chosen by the paper's editors, and was awarded the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award

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 in General Nonfiction. It was named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by among others The New York Times, Amazon.com

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, the Washington Post

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, Time Magazine and the Boston Globe

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As a foreign correspondent for The New York Times

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, Dexter Filkins has covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. He has been a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

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 and a winner of a George Polk Award and two Overseas Press Club Awards.