About BC Books Online
BC Books Online was created for anyone interested in BC-published books, and with librarians especially in mind. We'd like to make it easy for library staff to learn about books from BC publishers - both new releases and backlist titles - so you can inform your patrons and keep your collections up to date.
Our site features print books and ebooks - both new releases and backlist titles - all of which are available to order through regular trade channels. Browse our subject categories to find books of interest or create and export lists by category to cross-reference with your library's current collection.
A quick tip: When reviewing the "Browse by Category" listings, please note that these are based on standardized BISAC Subject Codes supplied by the books' publishers. You will find additional selections, grouped by theme or region, in our "BC Reading Lists."
Editorial Reviews
"This is the finest book yet written on the platoon-level combat of the Iraq war...Unforgettable -- raw, moving, and rendered with literary control...No one who reads this book will soon forget its imagery, words, or characters."
— Steve Coll, author of "Ghost Wars"
"Brilliant, heartbreaking, deeply true. The Good Soldiers offers the most intimate view of life and death in a twenty-first-century combat unit I have ever read. Unsparing, unflinching, and, at times, unbearable."
— Rick Atkinson, author of "An Army at Dawn" and "The Day of Battle"
"Finkel has made art out of a defining moment in history. You will be able to take this book down from the shelf years from now and say: 'This is what happened. This is what it felt like.'"
— New York Times
"Let me be direct. The Good Soldiers by David Finkel is the most honest, most painful, and most brilliantly rendered account of modern war I've ever read. I got no exercise at all the day I gulped down its 284 riveting pages."
— Fortune
"Heart-stopping...captures the surreal horror of war."
— New York Times
"Vivid and moving...Finkel's keen firsthand reportage, its grit and impact only heightened by the literary polish of his prose, gives us one of the best accounts yet of the American experience in Iraq."
— Publishers Weekly
"It's a lesson on framing, the way the big picture is most starkly displayed by the telling detail, in Finkel's superb and terrifying account of an Army battalion's 15-month stint in an especially ugly corner of Baghdad, it's the taste of blood. And not your own."
— Toronto Star
"David Finkel has written the most unforgettable book of the Iraq War, a masterpiece that will far outlast the fighting."
— David Maraniss, author of "They Marched into Sunlight"
"[The Good Soldiers captures the surreal horror of war: the experience of blood and violence and occasional moments of humanity that soldiers witness first-hand, and the slide shows of terrible pictures that will continue to play through their heads long after they have left the battlefield."
— National Post
"A superb account of the burdens soldiers bear."
— Kirkus Reviews
"Over and over, I cried. I endured nightmares. I have read hundreds of books about war and almost two dozen books about the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Most of them affected me. But none has affected me as deeply as The Good Soldiers."
— Kansas City Star
"This is the best account I have read of the life of one unit in the Iraq War. It is closely observed, carefully recorded, and beautifully written. David Finkel doesn't just take you into the lives of our soldiers, he takes you deep into their nightmares."
— Thomas E. Ricks
"A whole generation of these men will (God willing) be coming home, and The Good Soldiers is as good a guide as I can imagine to who they'll be when they get here."
— GQ
"From a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer at the height of his powers comes an incandescent and profoundly moving book: powerful, intense, enraging. This may be the best book on war since the Iliad."
— Geraldine Brooks, author of "People of the Book" and "March"
"[A] new classic...the reader cannot get enough...As a compelling read, The Good Soldiers is all good."
— Military Times
