Steve Leonard,contemporary War Institute
Among the countless writers who occupy chronicled the past two decades of war, few possess the innate ((adj.) natural, inborn, inherent; built-in) ability to capture the human experience, and to craft a vivid mosaic from the brief,often violent moments that shape our existence. C.
J. Chivers has proven himself a member of that scarce breed of storyteller able to weave those disparate moments into meaningful, sometimes brutal historical context. In a style reminiscent of Ernie Pyle, or Bernard Fall,and Mark Bowden, he draws on the grit, and sweat,and raw emotion of war to tell a narrative as few can, with a reality so unflinchingly rich and powerful that...
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