Generation Kill

Generation Kill

By Evan Wright
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“The language is blue, the blood red, and the action explosive. This may be the book of the Iraqi engagement.”

Richmond Times-Dispatch 

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize

Winner of the PEN Literary Award for Research in Nonfiction

Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize

A #1 Amazon bestseller in Iraq War History

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.