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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War by Anthony Swofford (Hardcover, 2003)

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This is a harrowing, yet inspiring portrait of a tormented consciousness struggling for reconciliation and peace. Anthony Swofford's grandfather fought in World War II, his father fought in Vietnam, and he, a directionless, testosterone-battered teenager, became a scout/sniper in the US Marines and fought in the Gulf War. His account of that time is also part of a lineage - after Wilfred Owen, Norman Mailer, Michael Herr and Tim O'Brien, it brings the raw and searing tradition of soldiers' tales up to date In the West, many have become convinced that it is possible to fight a war largely without casualties. Swofford's brutally honest account of life as a marine in the Gulf shows that every human being trained to kill another is a casualty. The author endures six months of sand-ridden hell with his fellow jarheads , tortured by boredom and fear. He suffers physical abuse from a training officer, is betrayed by his girlfriend at home, puts a loaded gun in his mouth, threatens to kill a fellow soldier, and comes under fire from both the enemy and another US military unit With the conflict over, Swofford hikes for miles through a landscape of incinerated Iraqui soldiers and is almos

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-13
9780743239189
eBay Product ID (ePID)
88742613

Product Key Features

Book Title
Jarhead: a Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War
Author
Anthony Swofford
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Government, History
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
272 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
216mm
Item Width
138mm

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Anthony Swofford
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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