page_title: Sebastian Junger
section_title: War
hierarchical_section_title: Sebastian Junger / Notable work / War
caption_attribution_description: English: WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama chats quietly with Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta of U.S. Army Europe's 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team just after presenting the sergeant with the Medal of Honor in a White House ceremony, Nov. 16. Giunta earned the medal for his courage under fire in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley in 2007. (Photo by Richard Bumgardner)
context_page_description: Sebastian Junger is an American journalist, author and filmmaker. He is noted for his book The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea, a creative nonfiction work which became a bestseller; and for his documentary films Restrepo and Korengal, which won awards. He also wrote the book War.
context_section_description: The visits from June 2007 to June 2008 to eastern Afghanistan to the Korengal Valley with Tim Hetherington resulted not only in their reports and pictures published in Vanity Fair in 2008 and the film Restrepo (2010), but also in Junger's best-selling book War (2010), which rewrites and expands upon his Vanity Fair dispatches. Junger in War, tells the story of Staff Sergent Sal Giunta. His actions during the fighting in the Korengal Valley made him the first soldier to still be alive when receiving the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War. Time magazine named War a "Top Ten Non-fiction Book" of 2010.
caption: Medal of honor recipient Sgt. Salvatore Giunta beside President Barack Obama
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