Based on Evan Wright's National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO(R) original mini-series. 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,...
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Oavsett om du r fr eller emot Operation Iraqi Freedom r det hr en bok som alla har nytta av att lsa. Evan Wright fr som inbddad journalist flja med en grupp marinsoldater som rasar fram som spjutspetsen i den amerikanska invasionsstyrkan. Wright fljer soldaterna frn frsta natten nr de korsar den Irakiska grnsen, fram till de blir hemskickade till USA.
Det r en osminkad bok som lyckas balansera mellan hyllning och kritik - hr finner du bde och. Om du vill frst 2003 rs Irakinvasion lite bttre br du lsa Generation Kill.











