Generation Kill: Devil Dogs Iceman Captain America and the New Face of American War
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs Iceman Captain America and the New Face of American War
Author: Evan Wright
Desc: Another nameless town another target for First Recon. It's only five in the afternoon but a sandtorm has plunged everything into a hellish twilight of murky red dust. On rooftops in alleyways lurk militiamen with machine guns AK rifles and the odd rocket-propelled grenade. Artillery bombardment has shattered the town's sewers and rubble is piled up in lagoons of human excrement. It stinks. Welcome to Iraq... Within hours of 9/11 America's war on terrorism fell to those like the 23 Marines of the First Recon Battalion the first generation dispatched into open-ed 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.