Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the

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

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They were called a generation without heroes.
Then they were called upon to be heroes.
Within hours of 9/11, Americaâ€™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 forebearsâ€”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 â€œFirst Suicide Battalionâ€ would spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq, and fight against the hardest resistance Saddam had to offer.
Now a major HBO event, Generation Kill is the national bestselling book based on the National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone. It 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.
Country USA
Manufacturer G.P. Putnam's Sons
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2005-02-01
Format Kindle eBook

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