Jarhead. A Marine's Chronicle Of The Gulf War

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: First Edition

Description: 260 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: "Swofford weaves this experience of war with vivid accounts of boot camp (which included physical abuse by his drill instructor), reflections on the mythos of the marines, and remembrances of battles with lovers and family. As engagement with the Iraqis draws closer, he is forced to consider what it is to be an American, a soldier, a son of a soldier, and a man." "Unlike the real-time print and television coverage of the Gulf War, which was highly scripted by the Pentagon, Swoffords account subverts the conventional wisdom that U.S. military interventions are now merely surgical insertions of superior forces that result in few American casualties. Jarhead insists we remember the Americans who are in fact wounded or killed, the fields of smoking enemy corpses left behind, and the continuing difficulty that American soldiers have reentering civilian life."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN: 9780743248204