2008, ISBN: 9780425224748

Kartoniert, 400 Seiten, illustrations, 232mm x 154mm x 30mm, Sprache(n): eng Based on Evan Wright's National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand acco… More...

Kartoniert, 400 Seiten, illustrations, 232mm x 154mm x 30mm, Sprache(n): eng 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® 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, 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.Evan Wright is the author of Hella Nation and  Generation Kill, the basis of the HBO® miniseries for which he served as co-writer.  Wright earned his degree in medieval and Renaissance studies from Vassar College, an education he soon put work at Hustler magazine, where he served as “ Entertainment Editor.” In the late 1990's he began writing feature articles for Rolling Stone  focused on youth subcultures, from radical environmentalists to skinheads to sorority girls. His work is characterized by immersion in his subjects' worlds, detailed reporting and dark humor.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. Versandkostenfreie Lieferung 21st century, military history, us history, journalism, iraq, iraq war, military, marines, United States Marine Corps, middle east, usa, operation iraqi freedom, war, combat, usmc, warfare, embedded, reporter, 9/11, Bravo Company, media tie-in, books about war, iraq war books, cool dad gifts, cool gift for dad, generation kill, american history, biography, government, political science, biographies, military books, army, public policy, geopolitics, dad gifts, military history books, gifts for history buffs, history, history books, USA / Militär, Polizei, USA / Politik, Zeitgeschichte, Recht, Irak / Irak-Krieg, Englische Bücher / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte, Politik / Recht, Staat, Verwaltung, Parteien, Krieg - Kriegsopfer, Militärgeschichte, Irak, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, [PU:Penguin LLC US]<

2008, ISBN: 9780425224748

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Penguin LLC US], 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 i… More...

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Penguin LLC US], 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® 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, frightening, and profane firsthand account of these remarkable men, of the personal toll of victory, and of the randomness,..., DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, 400, [GW: 434g], Banküberweisung, PayPal, [CT: Sonstiges / Sonstiges]<

2008, ISBN: 0425224740

Kartoniert / Broschiert USA / Militär, Polizei, USA / Politik, Zeitgeschichte, Recht, Irak / Irak-Krieg, Englische Bücher / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Zeitgeschichte, Politik / Recht,… More...

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2011, ISBN: 9780425224748

Find Generation Kill by Evan Wright in Paperback and other formats in History > Military - Iraq War (2003-2011). History 9780425224748, G.P. Putnam's Sons