Places and names : reflections on war, revolution, and returning
by Ackerman, Elliot (Author)
Summary
"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 Hassar, who fought for Al Qaeda in Iraq, and whose connections to the Islamic State are murky. At firs... Full description
- The revolution is over, or the music will live forever (prologue)
- The triumph of death (Summer 2013)
- The fourth war (Autumn 2013)
- In Dara'a, a spark and fuel (Spring 2011)
- Expatriates (Winter 2014)
- A prayer for Austin Tice (Winter 2014)
- Black in the rainbow, Bergdahl and the whale (Summer 2014)
- The Suleimani photograph (Summer 2014)
- Safe on the Southbank (Summer 2014)
- No friends but the mountains (Autumn 2014)
- Paradox (Autumn 2004)
- What's buried in the Devil's Mountain (Winter 2015)
- My last movie night (Spring 2011)
- The imitation game at Tel Abyad (Summer 2015)
- A thousand discords (Summer 2015)
- A Swiss wedding (Summer 2015)
- Back to the city (Autumn 2016).