Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq - Book Review

Richard N Story | August 10, 2007  | 0 comments  | Print  | E-mail

Technically speaking the book is flawless with no typographical or grammatical errors. Paul Rieckhoff writes in a very gripping manner that keeps pulling the reader deeper and deeper into the book. The illustrations included in the book are generally complimentary to the text with one exception. The author included a photo of him meeting Hillary Clinton and noted, in the caption, that the IAVA had a long, interesting and private discussion with the possible future Presidential candidate. Yet with no mention in the text about the conversation this photo appears, at least to this reviewer, to be nothing better than ‘name dropping’ and distracts from the overall quality of the illustrations.

No matter where you stand politically or how you feel about the war in Iraq if you want to see an unabashed and unapologetic look at the war in Iraq as seen by the grunts on the sharp end of the stick than this book is for you. With a list price of $15 dollars this book is in the budget of every person. And as a bonus if you buy this book a portion of the proceeds goes to a worthy charity: Hope for New Veterans Program. This charity fights to prevent homelessness of the veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan.

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