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ELLIOT ACKERMAN is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels 2034, Red Dress In Black and White, Waiting for Eden, Dark at the Crossing, and Green on Blue, as well as the memoir Places and Names: On War, Revolution and Returning. His books have been nominated for the National Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal in both fiction and nonfiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize among others. He is both a former White House Fellow and Marine, and served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. He divides his time between New York City and Washington, D.C.
PRAISE FOR ELLIOT ACKERMAN'S PLACES AND NAMES 'What a great, honest book - the kind that makes one feel lucky to have in one's hands ... His understanding of war is so profound that one feels like secrets have been revealed - truths - information that one day may be necessary for our survival. Well done' Sebastian Junger, author of Tribe 'Perhaps the most striking war memoir of the year ... Places and Names is as clean and spare in its prose as it is sharp and unsparing in timely observation' TIME magazine '[A] spare, beautiful memoir ... Places and Names is a classic meditation on war, how it compels and resists our efforts to order it with meaning. In simple, evocative sentences, with sparing but effective glances at poetry and art, [Ackerman] weaves memories of his deployments with his observations in and near Syria. He pulls off a literary account of war that is accessible to those who wonder 'what it's like' while ringing true to those who-each in his or her own way-already know' The New York Times '[Ackerman's] descriptions of Syria, which he visited as a writer, were so painfully evocative for me that I had to stop reading for a time. His vivid, sparse prose bears comparison to that of Tim O'Brien in The Things They Carried or Norman Lewis in Naples '44; Places and Names has the same clear-eyed view of what war is' Spectator 'It's so readable I devoured the book in one plane journey ... a master of dagger-sharp prose and memorable detail' The Times 'Lyrical ... Places and Names ends with a searing and beautiful chapter that details [Ackerman's] thoughts amid the blood, sweat and adrenaline of the Battle of Fallujah ... A thoughtful perspective on America's role overseas' Washington Post
