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Generation Kill |  | Author: Evan Wright
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Category: Book
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Rating:  210 reviews
Sales Rank: 12156
Media: Paperback
Pages: 384
Number Of Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0425224740
Dewey Decimal Number: 956
EAN: 9780425224748
ASIN: 0425224740
Publication Date: July 1, 2008
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Product Description
In the tradition of Black Hawk Down and Jarhead comes a searing portrait of young men fighting a modern-day war.
A powerhouse work of nonfiction, Generation Kill expands on Evan Wright's acclaimed three-part series that appeared in Rolling Stone during the summer of 2003. His narrative follows the twenty-three marines of First Recon who spearheaded the blitzkrieg on Iraq. This elite unit, nicknamed "First Suicide Battalion," searched out enemy fighters by racing ahead of American battle forces and literally driving into suspected ambush points.
Evan Wright lived on the front lines with this platoon from the opening hours of combat, to the fall of Baghdad, through the start of the guerrilla war. He was welcomed into their ranks, and from this bird's-eye perspective he tells the unsettling story of young men trained by their country to be ruthless killers. He chronicles the triumphs and horrors-physical, moral, emotional, and spiritual-that these marines endured while achieving victory in a war many questioned before it began. Wright's book is a timely account of war; even more important, it is a timeless description of the human drama taking place on today's battlefields. Written with brutal honesty, raw intensity, and startling intimacy, Generation Kill is destined to become a classic and take its place in the canon of the most captivating and authentic works of war literature.
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 Tremendous Book July 31, 2010
K-9
This book held my attention from cover to cover. It offered a ground-level enlisted man's view from 1st Recon during the invasion. It's nice to read a very politically incorrect book that feels genuine. Another excellent read to go hand-in-hand with this, is the book "One Bullet Away". It offers the ground-level officer's view regarding many of the same events and personnel.
 Great read, highly recommended for history or war buffs or those looking for a new perspective on the Iraq war July 10, 2010
Angela
A true story, a reporter journies with a squadron of Marines through Iraq when the war was first starting and everyone thought that it would be an "in and out" quick job. This is the book from which the HBO series Generation Kill (Starring Alexander Skarsgard) was based. A great read and an interesting look at the war from the perspective of those fighting it and some of the functions of their units out in the field - the stuff you don't see on CNN.
Stunning Read June 19, 2010
Steven Stewart (Liverpool)
To sum it up in a brief sentence; I've never read a book like it. Every page, paragraph, sentence and word I was hooked from start to finish. Evan Wright is a truly gifted writer that managed to capture the raw brutality of War and the mixture of emotions that come with it to create a book that taught you so much whilst entertaining you at the very same time. Laughter, horror and raw sadness were just some of the emotions I was put through as a result of reading this book. In its context, I struggle to find a flaw with this perfectly crafted, deeply honest account of Wrights time accompanying the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion of the United States Marine Corps during the invasion of Iraq.
Initially released as a three part series featured in Rolling Stone magazine, author Evan Wright was placed with Recon Marines to follow them and take an account of the invasion of Iraq. As with most journalists, you would expect Wright to be placed at the back out of the way of any danger, but during the entire book, Wright is smack bang in the middle of the war which has undoubtedly won him the respect he gained. Throughout the time Wright spends with the Marines, he reveals a purely brutal atmosphere that is both comical and frightening at the same time.
The team Wright spends most of his travelling time with in a Humvee consist of Sergeant Brad `Iceman' Colbert, Corporal Josh Ray Person, Corporal Harold James Trombley and Corporal Gabe Garza (switched a short time after with Corporal Walt Hasser). Although these are the main team, there are a lot more secondary characters mentioned in the book drawn from Second Platoon and some come across a bit more interesting. Sergeant Antonio Espera or First Lieutenant Nathaniel `Nate' Fick are the two more interesting secondary characters whose parts I really enjoyed reading. The incompetence of the higher ups in Second Platoon comes across quite shockingly to consider exactly how people, with such blatant lack of ability, can reach a position to be in command of an entire fleet.
When you first start reading, it's fairly easy to misunderstand the humour and actions of the Marines as being cold, callous and uncaring and you can very easily mistake that as being the Marines core personality. However, when you read on, Wright reveals that the dark humour or the supposed uncaring nature of the Marines is simply a coping measure as a way of dealing with the sheer horror of seeing mangled corpses of Iraqi soldiers, civilians and even in some cases children. The banter between Marines is as laugh out loud funny as it is childish as it almost entirely consists of racial, gay or some other kind of insult that in the civilian world would have no place.
War is a horrible thing. I don't think anyone would deny that. And in this book Evan Wright gives the anti-war protestors some ammo they could use to enforce their cause, but he also presents a lighter side that you would really struggle to sincerely understand unless you were in the position yourself. He presents the beautiful camaraderie formed between the Marines who, in some senses, through the time spent with Wright, have formed a kind of unbreakable brotherhood that is only strengthened by the horrors that surround them. The stories told in this book are of sincerely good men. They're men who find themselves in a truly alien situation that no amount of training and rules can really prepare them for. You understand their humanity and their hatred. You understand their purposes and their ideologies. And you understand that regardless of what we think of the war, they're over there putting their lives on the line and they deserve praise and respect for the job they're doing, and Wright deserves praise for telling their story.
Brilliant book. Buy it. Or give the HBO Mini-series a watch as it stays very close to the story told in the book.
great book June 19, 2010
Will Robinson (USA)
generation kill is a great book with a great concept i'd recomend it to anyone who wants to get a better veiw on the war in Iraq.
Out-f'n-standing! June 11, 2010
Shad C. Rogers (NW OHIO)
I was in the Marines just prior to Sept. 11th. I cant speak to the combat experience but if you want to know what Marines are like, this book will get you pretty darn close. Good read, funny and sad. Semper Fi.
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