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Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terrorism fell to those like the twenty-three Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new pop-culture breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears-soldiers raised on hip hop, video games and The Real World. 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.
Hailed as "one of the best books to come out of the Iraq war"(Financial Times), 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.
Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terrorism fell to those like the twenty-three Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new pop-culture breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears-soldiers raised on hip hop, video games and The Real World. 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.
Hailed as "one of the best books to come out of the Iraq war"(Financial Times), 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.
After 9/ll he pitched his editor on the idea that since the US military was “basically another youth subculture,” he ought to be writing about it. Generation Kill received numerous awards, including the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Los Angeles Times book award, a PEN USA literary prize and the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's award for “Best History of the Marine Corps.”
Wright has covered the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq. He is the recipient of two National Magazine Awards, one for reporting on the war in Iraq in Rolling Stone and the other for a profile published in Vanity Fair.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2008 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Zeitgeschichte & Politik |
| Genre: | Geschichte |
| Jahrhundert: | ab 1949 |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780425224748 |
| ISBN-10: | 0425224740 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Wright, Evan |
| Hersteller: |
Penguin LLC US
Berkley G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Abbildungen: | illustrations |
| Maße: | 232 x 154 x 30 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Evan Wright |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.07.2008 |
| Gewicht: | 0,45 kg |
After 9/ll he pitched his editor on the idea that since the US military was “basically another youth subculture,” he ought to be writing about it. Generation Kill received numerous awards, including the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, the Los Angeles Times book award, a PEN USA literary prize and the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's award for “Best History of the Marine Corps.”
Wright has covered the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq. He is the recipient of two National Magazine Awards, one for reporting on the war in Iraq in Rolling Stone and the other for a profile published in Vanity Fair.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2008 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Zeitgeschichte & Politik |
| Genre: | Geschichte |
| Jahrhundert: | ab 1949 |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Einband - flex.(Paperback) |
| ISBN-13: | 9780425224748 |
| ISBN-10: | 0425224740 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Wright, Evan |
| Hersteller: |
Penguin LLC US
Berkley G.P. Putnam's Sons |
| Abbildungen: | illustrations |
| Maße: | 232 x 154 x 30 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Evan Wright |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.07.2008 |
| Gewicht: | 0,45 kg |
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