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Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

Author(s): Wright, Evan

Language(s): English

Pages: 354

Year: 2005

Publisher: Berkley Trade

URL: http://www.amazon.com/Generation-Kill-Captain-America-American/dp/042520040…

ISBN: 042520040X

Abstract: Visit HBO’s Generation Kill website here. The New York Times bestseller—'one of the best books to come out of the second Iraq war.' (Financial Times) Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terrorism fell to those like the 23 Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ed combat since Vietnam. They were a new breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears-soldiers raised on hip hop, Internet porn, Marilyn Manson, video games and The Real World, a band of born-again Christians, dopers, Buddhists, and New Agers who gleaned their precepts from kung fu movies and Oprah Winfrey. Cocky, brave, headstrong, wary, and mostly unprepared for the physical, emotional, and moral horrors ahead, the 'First Suicide Battalion' would spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq, and fight against the hardest resistance Saddam had to offer. Generation Kill is the funny, frightening, and profane firsthand account of these remarkable men, of the personal toll of victory, and of the randomness, brutality, and camaraderie of a new American war. Read Evan Wright's posts on the Penguin Blog.

Category: Non-Fiction

Location: Arnhem

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