Dexter Filkins - The Forever War
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Dexter Filkins is a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, covering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The recipient of two Overseas Press Club Awards and the George Polk Award, Filkins earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination for his reporting from Afghanistan. Terrifyingly precise, The Forever War is a visceral tour of today’s battlefields with a journalist who walked side-by-side with U.S. Marines during the battle of Fallujah and a reminder of the cost of war to warriors and innocents alike.
Parkway Central Library
1901 Vine Street (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway)
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-567-4341