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

Evan Wright

Paperback | Pages: 384 pages

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Original Title:	Generation Kill
ISBN:	042520040X (ISBN13: 9780425200407)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Rudy Reyes, Evan Wright, Brad Colbert, Josh Ray Person, Nathaniel Fick, Antonio Espera, Harold James Trombley, Robert Timothy Bryan, Evan Stafford, Walt Hasser, Mike Wynn, Gabe Garza, Jason Lilley, Leandro Baptista, Anthony Jacks, James Chaffin, Stephen Ferrando, Dave McGraw, John Sixta, Bryan Patterson, Ray Griego, Todd Eckloff, Eric Kocher, Larry Shawn Patrick, James Mattis, Meesh
Literary Awards:	J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize (2005), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest (2004), PEN Center USA Literary Award for Research Nonfiction (2005)

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Another nameless town, another target for First Recon. It's only five in the afternoon, but a sandtorm has plunged everything into a hellish twilight of murky, red dust. On rooftops, in alleyways lurk militiamen with machine guns, AK rifles and the odd rocket-propelled grenade. Artillery bombardment has shattered the town's sewers and rubble is piled up in lagoons of human excrement. It stinks. Welcome to Iraq...

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.

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Title	:	Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
Author	:	Evan Wright
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	February 1st 2005 by Berkley Caliber (first published June 17th 2004)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. War. Military Fiction. History

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Disclaimer: I'm a virulent peacenik who believes the only just US military actions in the past 50 years were Bosnia and the initial Afghanistan liberation, and both for the same reasonstopping totalitarian genocide (Afghani misogynistic tyranny). I believe we use the military career as a means to pacify our permanent underclasstheir only hope for the true opportunity we won't give them otherwise. I am so radical that I believe we should reduce our military by 60%.I listened to this book because

This is one of the best books I've ever read about the Iraq War. The only book I can compare it to is OUTLAW PLATOON by Sean Parnell. It's much more candid and uninhibited than the Bing West books, like THE SMALLEST TRIBE, though those books are very good too. I recommend this book to everyone who has ever served in the military or is interested in what military service means.

Twenty-five years from now, this book will be the defining piece on the average grunts in the run up and initial invasion of Iraq. It started as a series of articles that the author, who was embedded with a company of Marines, did for Rolling Stone (ironically, it was a Marine Recon unit, which is the rough equivalent to the Army Rangers in the Marines, but they get stuck driving north in Humvees just like everyone else). The articles evolved into something more and this book in the result. Like

Disclaimer: This reviewer is a gentle and peaceful person. Truly. Interestingly, although I posted this review almost a year ago, I haven't heard from a goodreads person ("community manager") until now about it. Possibly because Evan Wright has become a "goodreads author"? Maybe that has nothing to do with it, but possibly goodreads wants to become "Lifetime Books" or literally, "Good Reads" - they don't want critical reviews or anything negative written about their "goodreads authors". In the

it's really amazing how faithful the miniseries was to the book, right down to the dialogue

Giving "Generation Kill" a full 5-star rating after giving "As I Lay Dying" and "Slaughterhouse 5" 4-star ratings feels a tad lazy, really. I could pretend to be fancier than I am, and claim that I enjoyed my first foray (!) into Faulkner and Vonnegut more than I enjoyed this 350 page, easily digestible account of some totally bad ass Marines fighting in Iraq, but I won't. I liked the Faulkner and Vonnegut books, sure, and I intend to read more by each author, but "Generation Kill" resonates

Decent 3 Stars account of the US Marine Recon "tip of the spear" on the eastern flank of the invasion of Iraq. Good companion to One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer