Generation Kill

Name: Generation Kill
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.92 (12 reviews)
Author: Evan Wright
ISBN: 9781400179749

Author: Evan Wright

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 13 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/27/2008

Categories: Nonfiction, History, Military History, United States Military

Synopsis

They were called a generation without heroes. Then they were called upon to be heroes. 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 breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears—soldiers raised on hip-hop, Internet porn, Marilyn Manson, video games, and The Real World, a band of born-again Christians, dopers, Buddhists, and New Agers who gleaned their precepts from kung fu movies and Oprah Winfrey. 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.

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.

About Evan Wright

Evan Wright, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, has also written for Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications. He has won two National Magazine Awards for reporting and profile writing, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, a PEN Literary Award, and a General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation. He lives in southern California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathleen on September 03, 2009

Ten things I learned from Generation Kill that I really should have known already: 10.) A shamal is a wind blowing over Iraq and the Persian Gulf that can cause horrible dust storms. The resulting weather can make things like driving, sleeping in the open, and not getting putrid, red eye infections......more

Goodreads review by Landry on November 20, 2013

Generation Kill by Evan Wright is a firsthand account of a reporter embedded with the Marines of Force Recon Battalion during the invasion of Iraq. Jam-packed with details,this novel portrays the struggles and terrors that the marines face in the war.From weapons malfunctioning to choices that the......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on April 25, 2009

There is something that Evan Wright was able to do in writing this book that the other authors, even the award winners like Dexter Filkins and Steve Fainaru, were not able to do and that is extricate himself from the story and allow it to be solely about the men. Wright is so invisible in the mix th......more

Goodreads review by Hayley on January 10, 2009

I knew virtually nothing about the Iraq invasion--especially the conditions on the ground. This book made much of the military strategy (and some of the most shocking, sad, and funny moments) quite real to me. It did so without losing me in military terminology, or seeming patronizing by dumbing it......more

Goodreads review by Lee on December 09, 2017

Very good book, I really enjoyed it. An intriguing insight into modern warfare through the eyes of an attached journalist with no previous military experience at all...and, bizarrely, from Rolling Stone magazine of all things? It was interesting to read about the authors STEEP learning curve when it......more