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When the Marines were sent to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Storm, Anthony Swofford was there, with a hundred-pound pack on his shoulders and a sniper's rifle in his hands. This is his scorching memoir of life on and off the battlefield.
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Anthony Swofford grew up on military bases in the US and Japan, and joined the Marine Corps in 1988, aged eighteen. He was deployed to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Shield in 1990 with the Second Battalion, 7th Marines. On leaving the Marines Swofford attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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"A bayonet in the eye...brutal and unforgettable."
--"The Sacramento Bee"
"A brutally honest memoir...gut-wrenching frontline reportage."
--"Entertainment Weekly"
"A searing contribution to the literature of combat."
--Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"
William Boyd
Author of "Any Human Heart"
A scathingly honest and bleakly powerful book. A hugely disturbing insight into the minds of the very young men who long to go to war.
Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D.
Author of "Odysseus in America" and "Achilles in Vietnam"
This memoir is not pretty -- but veined with beauty. It is as outrageous, irreverent, funny, and obscene as an Aristophanes comedy, and as rich in pain and moral understanding as the "Iliad." Anthony Swofford: remember this name.
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- PublisherScribner
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0743248619
- ISBN 13 9780743248617
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages260
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