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Junger was born in Belmont, Massachusetts, the son of Ellen Sinclair, a painter, and Miguel Chapero Junger, a physicist. [5] [6] Born in Dresden, Germany, and of Russian, Austrian, Spanish, Italian, and Jewish descent, his father immigrated to the United States during World War II to escape persecution because of paternal Jewish ancestry, and to study engineering at MIT.
Sebastian Junger is a journalist and filmmaker, with experience as a wartime correspondent in the Middle East. At the time of the near death experience described in the book, Junger was living with his wife and two daughters on a remote property in Truro, Massachusetts, after relocating from New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic.
ISBN. 9781982153410. Dewey Decimal. 323.440973. Preceded by. Tribe. Freedom is a creative nonfiction book written by Sebastian Junger and published by Simon & Schuster in 2021. This 2021 travel memoir is an extended meditation on "what it means to be free." [1] In the book, which recounts the experiences of two Afghanistan combat vets, a ...
Sebastian is both a given name and a surname. It comes from the Greek name Sebastianos (Σεβαστιανός) meaning "from Sebastia" (Σεβάστεια), which was the name of the city now known as Sivas , located in the central portion of what is now Turkey; in Western Europe the name comes through the Latinized intermediary Sebastianus.
Freedom. Tribe is a creative nonfiction book written by Sebastian Junger and published by Simon & Schuster in 2016. Junger discusses the reintegration of soldiers into society and the paradoxical observation that adversity and danger can contribute to greater psychological wellbeing. The book received generally positive reviews from critics.
War: As Soldiers Really Live It is a creative nonfiction book written by Sebastian Junger and published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2010.. Accompanied by photojournalist Tim Hetherington, Junger spent months embedded with second platoon of Battle Company, part of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, in the Korengal Valley, a transit corridor for Taliban fighters coming into Afghanistan from Pakistan ...
A Death in Belmont centers on the 1963 rape and murder of Bessie Goldberg. This was during the period from 1962 to 1964 of the infamous Boston Strangler crimes. Junger raises the possibility in his book that the real Strangler was Albert DeSalvo. He [clarification needed] eventually confessed to committing several Strangler murders, but not ...
Restrepo is a 2010 American documentary film about the War in Afghanistan directed by British photojournalist Tim Hetherington and American journalist Sebastian Junger.It explores the year that Junger and Hetherington spent, on assignment for Vanity Fair, [4] in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, embedded with the Second Platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne ...