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Tarfumes.com - Generation Kill
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Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 956
EAN: 9780425224748
ISBN: 0425224740
Label: Berkley Trade
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: 2008-07-01
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Studio: Berkley Trade
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In the tradition of Black Hawk Down and Jarhead comes a searing portrait of young men fighting a modern-day war.
A powerhouse work of nonfiction, Generation Kill expands on Evan Wright's acclaimed three-part series that appeared in Rolling Stone during the summer of 2003. His narrative follows the twenty-three marines of First Recon who spearheaded the blitzkrieg on Iraq. This elite unit, nicknamed "First Suicide Battalion," searched out enemy fighters by racing ahead of American battle forces and literally driving into suspected ambush points.
Evan Wright lived on the front lines with this platoon from the opening hours of combat, to the fall of Baghdad, through the start of the guerrilla war. He was welcomed into their ranks, and from this bird's-eye perspective he tells the unsettling story of young men trained by their country to be ruthless killers. He chronicles the triumphs and horrors-physical, moral, emotional, and spiritual-that these marines endured while achieving victory in a war many questioned before it began. Wright's book is a timely account of war; even more important, it is a timeless description of the human drama taking place on today's battlefields. Written with brutal honesty, raw intensity, and startling intimacy, Generation Kill is destined to become a classic and take its place in the canon of the most captivating and authentic works of war literature.
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Summary: Required reading
Comment: This book provided wonderful insight into what our troops were and are thinking. Everyone should read this to truly understand the quagmire that is Iraq and the boondoggle created by this administration. Thank you Evan Wright for being there and capturing so eloquently what needed to be brought to light.
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Summary: Two Thumbs Up
Comment: I purchased this because I couldn't wait for the series to finish on HBO. I was not disappointed. Well written and engaging. I also got Nathan Fick's book, which I liked even better.
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Summary: Not the Greatest Generation
Comment: The most disturbing sentence in Evan Wright's book, in a story filled with atrocities, was in the last paragraph,' The young troops I profiled in Generation Kill....are among the finest people of their generation.' Really?
Then what have we become? These young men have the heart and soul of Columbine killers. They didn't go to war out of patriotism or to fight terror, they thought it would be neat to kill people.
Maybe foreign wars is not our thing. Viet Nam and now Iraq, two debacles in our lifetime. Maybe Dick Cheyney has it backwards when he says we are fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here. Let's wait for them to come here. We are better suited to fight on our own continent. Then our boys can go home at night, to their own beds after a day of killing.
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Summary: welcome to this generations war
Comment: I bought this book after watching the episodes on cable. I was pleased that the filmed episodes were accurate to the book's accounts. The book itself was based on the experiences of an embedded reporter traveling with an advance unit of Recon Marines at the very beginning the invasion of Iraq. A war that, sadly, we are still fighting, apparently with the same degree of confusion as when we started. In any case, or by any road, the experiences, and attitudes of the soldier seem to be universal, though this generation's soundtrack seems to be rap & heavy metal, with a soupcon of country. What is interesting is that thanks to the methods of training used nowadays is that more soldiers seem eager and willing to kill, than in previous wars. Though the statistics show that there are still of fair number of returning vets who have a hard time dealing with the aftermath. I found the book to be interesting and engrossing, for any one unfamiliar with what it is like to be a combat soldier, this book should be illuminating.
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Summary: Eye opener
Comment: Great book, should be a must read for anyone interested in the mess we call the Iraq war.
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