Overview

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.

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"One of the best books to come out of the Iraq war.... An adrenaline rush of intelligent prose.-- ""Financial Times"" ""A pungently written combat narrative and a close-range study of a bunch of twentysomething warriors trying to get a handle on who they are."" -- ""Time"" ""Nuanced and grounded in details often overlooked in daily journalistic accounts...A complex portrait of able young men raised on video games and trained as killers."" -- ""New York Times"" ""One of the best books to come out of the Iraq war...An adrenaline rush of intelligent prose."" -- ""Financial Times"""

""Nuanced and grounded in details often overlooked in daily journalistic accounts."" -- ""New York Times"" ""One of the best books to come out of the Iraq war...An adrenaline rush of intelligent prose."" -- ""Financial Times (London)"" ""Shockingly honest."" -- ""Entertainment Weekly"" ""The language is blue, the blood red, and the action explosive. This may be the book of the Iraqi engagement."" -- ""Richmond Times-Dispatch "" ""A pungently written combat narrative and a close-range study of a bunch of twentysomething warriors trying to get a handle on who they are."" -- ""Time""

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Evan Wright (1964-2024) was an award-journalist and multiaward-winning author of several books, including Generation Kill. As a journalist, he covered crime, war, riots, and other human spectacles for a variety of publications, including Time and Rolling Stone, and was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. He won two National Magazine Awards for reporting and profile writing and a General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, among other accolades. He grew up in Willoughby, Ohio, and studied medieval history at Vassar College. Patrick Lawlor has recorded over three hundred audiobooks in just about every genre. He has been an Audie Award finalist several times and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards. He has won a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, numerous Library Journal and Kirkus starred audio reviews, and multiple Editors' Picks, Top 10, and Year's Best lists. He is the only male audiobook narrator in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To relax in his spare time, Patrick runs marathons. Patrick Lawlor has recorded over three hundred audiobooks in just about every genre. He has been an Audie Award finalist several times and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards. He has won a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, numerous Library Journal and Kirkus starred audio reviews, and multiple Editors' Picks, Top 10, and Year's Best lists. He is the only male audiobook narrator in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. To relax in his spare time, Patrick runs marathons.

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