Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning

One of NPR's Best Books of 2019

“Lyrical . . .*A thoughtful perspective on America's role overseas.” -Washington Post

From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.

“War hath determined us.”*-John Milton, Paradise Lost

Toward the beginning of Places and Names, Elliot Ackerman sits in a refugee camp in southern Turkey, across the table from a man named Abu Has...