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·費爾金斯被美國新聞界譽為“這個世代最重要的戰地記者”，自1998年起持續報導阿富汗與伊拉剋戰事，曾擔任《洛杉磯時報》新德裏分社的社長；2007—2008年擔任哈佛大學卡爾人權政策中心研究員，2010年加入《紐約時報》，持續在阿富汗及伊拉剋等地進行采訪報導，2012年加入《紐約客》。2009年憑藉阿富汗及巴基斯坦的美軍戰地報導獲普利策奬/2010年 因揭發阿富汗戰爭內幕，獲得喬治·波爾剋奬/兩度獲得美國國傢雜誌奬（2009/2011）及美國海外新聞協會奬。