Summary
Tie-in edition about the shocking and visceral story of First Recon - the first unit of marines behind enemy lines in Iraq.
Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation’s first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met any of these people, who serve as front-line troops. For whatever reason, the media simply doesn’t get them. As we all know, news accounts …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552158930 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0552158933 |
| Author: | Evan Wright |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Corgi Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2009 |
| Weight: | 329g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 127mm x 28mm |
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This is war reporting up there with such greats as Michael Herr’s Dispatches
This is war reporting up there with such greats as Michael Herr’s Dispatches * Financial Times magazine *
Easily the best book on the Iraq war so far. A deeply disturbing, compulsively readable narrative offering profound insights into the lives of America’s young soldiers * New Statesman *
An adrenaline rush of intelligent prose. One of the best books to come out of the Iraq war * Financial Times *
About The Author
Evan Wright
EVAN WRIGHT is the author of Generation Kill, one of the most celebrated books on the Iraq War and recently adapted by David Simon into a 7-hour HBO miniseries. He is a recipient of the National Magazine Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Award, a PEN/Faulkner Award and a Lukas Book Prize. He is also a contributing editor to Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair.
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