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ISBN13: 9780399153273 |
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Like many of his generation, Colby Buzzell was jumping from one dead-end job to another, a paycheck away from moving back home. He spent his time skateboarding and killing as many brain cells as humanly possible. Tired of the monotony, he found himself in front of an army recruiter. Within months he was in Iraq, a machine gunner in the controversial Stryker Brigade Combat Team, an army unit on the cutting edge of combat technology, and the first of its kind.
This is the startlingly honest story of a young man and a war. Trapped amid guerilla warfare, urban-style in Mosul, Iraq, Buzzell was struck by the bizarre, absurd, often frightening world surrounding him. He began writing an online web log describing the war — not as it was being reported by CNN or in briefings on Capitol Hill, but as he experienced it. The result is an extraordinary narrative, rich with unforgettable scenes: the fierce firefight in which the resistance came from men in black; chain-smoking in the guard tower, counting the tracer rounds fired over the city; the raid on an Iraqi home during which a woman couldn't stop screaming as her husband was being taken away; and the hesitation of a young soldier who had been passed around from platoon to platoon because he was too afraid to fight. As the popularity of his blog grew, Buzzell became the embedded reporter the army couldn't control despite its best — and often hilarious — efforts to do so.
My War is the debut of a fresh and remarkable voice, and it is already being compared to the classics ofyouth and combat Herr's Dispatches and Heller's Catch-22. But My War is much more than a war story; it is the story of a generation caught between the hyper-reality of a technological age and an ever more complicated and dangerous world.
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Donzilla, February 26, 2008 (view all comments by Donzilla)
Colby Buzzell gives you the inside schkoop on what was really going on in Iraq -- at least from one infantryman's perspective.
A well-written book by a well-read, contemporary author who is definitely aware of what is going on around us in this day and age.
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Mindy, May 14, 2007 (view all comments by Mindy)
Colby Buzzell, an American soldier deployed in Iraq, started an online journal while serving as a machine-gunner. The blog ran for just eight weeks before being shut down by the U.S. military.
Thankfully, his blog entries and emails were picked up by a publisher. "My War: Killing Time In Iraq" is Buzzell's compelling narrative of his day-to-day life in Mosul. Buzzell's candid descriptions of his experiences on the front lines of the war in Iraq are blunt, funny, honest, surreal, but mostly extraordinary.
"My War" is this year's Overall Winner and Non-Fiction Winner of the Lulu Blooker Prize, awarded for excellent in "blooks" (books based on blogs or web sites).
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780399153273
- Subtitle:
- Killing Time in Iraq
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Putnam Adult
- Subject:
- Military - United States
- Subject:
- Military
- Subject:
- Iraq War, 2003
- Subject:
- Military - Iraq War
- Subject:
- Buzzell, Colby
- Subject:
- Military - Iraq War (2003-)
- Publication Date:
- 20051006
- Binding:
- Hardback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 368
- Dimensions:
- 9.58x6.38x1.24 in. 1.26 lbs.
