What makes the most recent American war novel to come out different from its predecessors?

Tom Visso will tell us about Green on Blue, a novel by Elliot Ackerman, which he reviews

this week.

One of the really interesting lines in the book is a read's realization that the war has

no sides.

It's just a bunch of people fighting for some incredibly nebulous end.

And what makes the Italian so Italian?

We'll find out from John Hooper here to talk about his new book, The Italians.

One of the other paradoxes about Italians is that they are warm, extrovert, but not spontaneous.

Alexander Alter will be here with notes from the publishing world, and Greg Cole's has

bestseller news.

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Tom Visso joins us now.

He reviewed in this week's issue of the book review a new novel, a first novel by Elliot

Ackerman called Green on Blue.

Hi, Tom.

Hi, Pamela.

So this novel is part of a big wave of kind of post-arach, post-Afghanistan, although

I'm not sure post actually is the right word, maybe mid-post Afghanistan and Iraq novels

that have come out in recent years.

Where does this one fit in?

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