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Great style of writing and great attention to detail.
A fantastic read. Honest in a way that often hurts, as well as invokes pride and horror. Evan Wright uses bald observation and lets us see into the lives of the Marines around him, how their Command and orders effect them. Not recommended for the easily offended but and excellent for the more open minded, strangely enough. War seen from the front lines and the men who are used as weapons. Get Some
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 of the last two wars focused almost exclusively on battlefield imagery of high-tech weapons wreaking astounding destruction, comply with analysis from retired army grandees and other experts, punctuated by the odd heart-warming patriotic sound-bite. The troops themselves play a role in the media's presentation of recent wars rather like extras in The Triumph of the Will. They are everywhere yet somehow invisible. When they speak you get the sense that what they are saying has been carefully scripted. Now Generation Kill tells the soldiers' story in their own words. The narrative focuses on a platoon of 23 marines, many of them veterans of Afghanistan,
Author Bio
Evan Wright is a contributing editor on Rolling Stone magazine. He spent two
months living with a platoon of Marine reconnaissance soldiers during the war
in Iraq.
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