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An extraordinary account of the war in Iraq. 'Once we passed the checkpoint at the border, it hit me. I was like, Holy Shit, this is it, I'm entering a combat zone. Cool!'At twenty-six Colby Buzzell, unemployed and living at home, decided to join the US Army. Within months he was in Iraq, a machine gunner in the controversial Stryker Brigade Combat Team, an army unit on the cutting edge of combat technology and the first of its kind.Trapped amid 'guerrilla warfare, urban-style' in Mosul, Iraq, Buzzell was struck by the bizarre and often frightening world surrounding him. He began writing a blog describing the war - not as being reported by CNN or official briefings - but as experienced by the soldier on the ground. His story is a brutally honest and hard-hitting account of the absurdities of modern war. These are the real stories of the war- a firefight where the resistance came from 'men in black'; a night spent chain-smoking in the guard tower counting the tracer bullets being fired over the city; and the hesitation of a young soldier who had been passed around from platoon to platoon because he was too afraid to fight.My War is a powerful story of a young man and a war, unlike any you have read before.Product Identifiers
PublisherTransworld LTD
ISBN-139780552154376
eBay Product ID (ePID)87377240
Product Key Features
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameMy War: Killing Time in Iraq
Publication Year2006
SubjectGovernment, History
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaBiographies & True Stories
AuthorColby Buzzell
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight283 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorColby Buzzell