There are already many books on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and about the War on Terror - but this is something very different. In "The Forever War", award-winning "New York Times" correspondent Dexter Filkins does not analyse how these wars happened and why, or where they have succeeded or failed; instead, he captures with searing immediacy, the human experience - and tragedy - of war. We meet Iraqi insurgents and American soldiers, Afghan rebels and Taliban clerics. We travel to deserts and glaciers and mountaintops, to the scene of public amputations and executions, to suicide bombings and into the homes of the bombers themselves. The result is a visceral understanding of the War on the Terror, its victims, the people who fight it and the way these people feel.

戴斯特·费尔金斯被美国新闻界誉为“这个世代最重要的战地记者”，自1998年起持续报导阿富汗与伊拉克战事，曾担任《洛杉矶时报》新德里分社的社长；2007—2008年担任哈佛大学卡尔人权政策中心研究员，2010年加入《纽约时报》，持续在阿富汗及伊拉克等地进行采访报导，2012年加入《纽约客》。2009年凭借阿富汗及巴基斯坦的美军战地报导获普利策奖/2010年 因揭发阿富汗战争内幕，获得乔治·波尔克奖/两度获得美国国家杂志奖（2009/2011）及美国海外新闻协会奖。