In May of this year I had the good fortune of getting an early reading galley of The Forever War. I was taken back by its reality- “eyes on the ground”.
The Forever War is non-judgmental. It is journalism brought forth from the eyes and mind of a soul I could believe. I felt what Dexter saw and I could see what he felt for others in their situation. Not since Dispatches and Loyd’s My War Gone By has war journalism struck me so powerfully.
Another pal Robert Stone wrote a brilliant front page New York Times essay about war journalism praising Dexter’s work and stating in an explaining way Forever War’s place in American war literary history.
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