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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 pop-culture breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears—soldiers raised on hip hop, video games and The Real World. 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.
Now a major HBO event, Generation Kill is the national bestselling book based on the National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone. It 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.
- Sales Rank: #22581 in Books
- Brand: Berkley Trade
- Published on: 2008-07-01
- Released on: 2008-07-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.99" h x .95" w x 5.96" l, 1.03 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 384 pages
Features
From Publishers Weekly
Wright rode into Iraq on March 20, 2003, with a platoon of First Reconnaissance Battalion Marines—the Marine Corps' special operations unit whose motto is "Swift, Silent, Deadly." These highly trained and highly motivated First Recon Marines were the leading unit of the American-led invasion force. Wright wrote about that experience in a three-part series in Rolling Stone that was hailed for its evocative, accurate war reporting. This book, a greatly expanded version of that series, matches its accomplishment. Wright is a perceptive reporter and a facile writer. His account is a personality-driven, readable and insightful look at the Iraq War's first month from the Marine grunt's point of view. It jibes with other firsthand reports of the first phase of the Iraqi invasion (including David Zucchino's Thunder Run), showing the unsettling combination of feeble and vicious resistance put up by the Iraqi army, the Fedayeen militiamen and their Syrian allies against American forces bulldozing through towns and cities and into Baghdad. Wright paints compelling portraits of a handful of Marines, most of whom are young, street-smart and dedicated to the business of killing the enemy. As he shows them, the Marines' main problem was trying to sort out civilians from enemy fighters. Wright does not shy away from detailing what happened when the fog of war resulted in the deaths and maimings of innocent Iraqi men, women and children. Nor does he hesitate to describe intimately the few instances in which Marines were killed and wounded. Fortunately, Wright is not exposing the strengths and weaknesses of a new generation of American fighting men, as the misleadingly hyped-up title and subtitle indicate. Instead, he presents a vivid, well-drawn picture of those fighters in action on the front lines in the blitzkrieg-like opening round of the Iraq War.
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From Booklist
Its timeliness notwithstanding, this chronicle of an American reconnaissance platoon's mission to spearhead the invasion of Iraq is not one of those hastily thrown together "instant books." The author was the only journalist to travel with First Recon. He joined the platoon in March 2003 and traveled with its soldiers into combat missions (including the assault on Baghdad in April). His book is not about the war itself but about one group of men who fought in it. Today's American soldiers, Wright says, are young men who are "on more intimate terms with the culture of the video games, reality TV shows and Internet porn than they are with their own families." (One 19-year-old corporal compares driving into an ambush to a Grand Theft Auto video game: "It was fucking cool.") Wright also explores how today's pop-culture-driven soldiers differ from those who fought more than three decades ago in Vietnam. A perceptive, often troubling examination of soldiers' view of war, peace, and combat. David Pitt
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Review
“One of the best books to come out of the Iraq war.”—Financial Times
“Stunning.”—Boston Herald
“Engrossing.”—Washington Post
“Shockingly honest.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Complex.”—New York Times
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189 of 201 people found the following review helpful.
The one embed account you should read
By M. S. Hillis
If you can only read one account of the Iraq War, this should be it. Wright spent about a month with a squad of recon Marines -- essentially the special forces of the corps -- and his account is nothing short of gripping.
It is also exhausting, as Wright subjects the reader to a full range of emotion -- from joy to appalling horror to pride. Wright has a keen eye for the details that bring the stories of the war to life. The banter between the soldiers is fascinating and frequently hilarious, and is definitely a highlight of the book. No other account brings you closer to the men who slugged this thing out as they barreled across the Iraqi desert.
It is useful to keep in mind that this book calls the shots as they are seen from a small group of soldiers on the frontline of the war. What this book is not is a comprehensive overview of the run-up to the war or of the overall strategy employed by the U.S. military. The soldiers often gripe about certain officers and decisions taken at the higher levels. Some of the complaints are balanced out with alternate views. Wright's account is valuable not for its even-handed treatment of every side in a particular issue, but for giving insight into how the men on the ground met and dealt with problems that cropped up during their historic mission.
The book does dwell on a lot of the mishaps encountered by the soldiers. Among the headaches endured by Wright's squad: a lack of lubricating oil to keep their weapons functioning properly, muffed radio communication thanks to incompatible encryption, and general cluelessness about the true nature of their mission, which was basically to drive through enemy positions to draw fire so their position/size/strength could be estimated.
As with any good reporter, Wright plays the facts pretty straight. There isn't much here that is partisan one way or the other. He doesn't shy away from showing the sheer horror of war, such as the case of the Iraqi driver who had the top of his head scooped out by a bullet, leaving braindead but technicaly alive, with a beating heart and working lungs as he sat at the wheel of his vehicle. Nor does Wright paper over Saddam's brutal regime, and there are several scenes in which cheering crowds lined the streets to joyously welcome the Marines.
The book's title is outrageously sensationalistic, and while at the start Wright seems poised to cast the entire adventure as a tale of ultra-violent American youth numbed by years of Hollywood action flicks and bloody video games, that theme is quickly left behind.
Indeed, it would be difficult to make generalizations about American troops based on this book. On the one hand, you have extremely intelligent and upright men that represent the best of America, such as the guys who essentially shame an officer into authorizing a helicopter evacuation for an Iraqi kid who was accidentally shot. On the other hand, there are examples of sheer incandescent idiocy, such as the guy who remarks how cool it would have been to drop the atomic bombs on Japan and kill a quarter million people.
Highly recommended.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Wright depicts U.S. ground warfare with unremitting honesty and realism
By Dan Berger
This powerful book depicts American ground warfare in the 21st century with unremitting honesty and realism. Journalist Evan Wright embeds with a unit that becomes the tip of the Iraq invasion’s spear in 2003.
First Recon is an elite Marine battalion, lightly armored, trained to move fast out front of heavier and stronger troop concentrations.
What they aren’t told is the nature of their mission: with the Marines responsible for moving from Kuwait towards Baghdad through Mesopotamia, Major General James Mattis decides to use First Recon in a separate, parallel thrust – to draw fire and flush out the enemy that can then be pounded by the heavier forces.
They’re bait.
Wright portrays young fighting men in all their complexity and contradiction. Many can’t wait to go into battle. That’s understandable. It’s what they’ve trained for, and they’ve been waiting in isolation in a desert holding area for weeks.
But they will have to learn battle’s realities, which few have yet experienced: Seeing bodies blown apart. Confronting civilian casualties, which strike them harder than they expect – particular when the victim is a child. Living with their own errors when that happens. Dealing with their army’s errors, such as incompetent officers failing to procure necessary supplies. Officers who are martinets. Others who are deskers, suddenly called up but ignorant of basic combat procedure. Orders changed and changed again. It seems like every night the men dig in after an exhausting day, only to get late orders to change their position, forcing them to move and then dig in once more for the night.
Wright explores the personalities of the men he moves with most closely. Colbert, a sergeant nicknamed The Iceman for his unflappable cool, whose men have complete confidence in him. And who really, really likes Barry Manilow. Persons, Colbert’s driver, with a wacky sense of humor and a mouth he loves to run. Trombley, young, a new transfer in, wanting to prove himself but annoying his new comrades instead. Wright delves into their often dysfunctional family backgrounds. It’s the rare one who comes from a happy family with married parents.
They are a reasonably slick fighting machine. You see their uncut conversations, and how they get on each other’s nerves. You see unwavering loyalties that develop among combat comrades. You see men’s intense feelings towards the officers who hold their lives in their hands: positive towards those who have earned it, and contemptuous to those who fail to. Wright spares the officers the men most hate by using only their nicknames, not their real ones. And you see the wisdom in the military, since Vietnam, forcing journalists to commit to and stay with a single unit, rather than flit around the combat zone. Those like Wright who do so get to know them, get to know the realities they face, and are less likely to do hit-and-run journalism on soldiers whose life in the field and in combat most civilians can’t begin to imagine.
Wright walks a fine line here. Part of him wants to be a liberal journalist, the type who vomits discontent on Bush's Iraq war, which he does in an afterword. The main book, though, much of it published as Rolling Stone articles in 2003 and 2004 – before liberals got that particular bit in their mouth – is nearly devoid of it.
The other part of him wants to describe accurately the Iraq invasion as seen by those who fought it, with more than a little sympathy for their viewpoint. Mostly, this second part wins.
The book focuses on the killing of civilians. The men of First Recon rarely fight pitched battles in an open field against a regular army. Far more often they can't tell who's shooting at them, although they try their best to make informed judgments about who’s hostile. And they can't see clearly who's approaching them, particularly at night, or discern whether they are hostile or not. Escaping Iraqi soldiers? Jihadis in plain clothes trying to get close for an attack? Or just civilians too scared to stop at a roadblock for anyone?
Our guys are variously exhausted, adrenaline rushed, numbed to combat, wired on stimulants, terrified, or on the receiving end of confusing and conflicting orders regarding their rules of engagement – who they may or should shoot at.
It’s a crapshoot every time they pull the trigger, Wright says, because there’s no telling how the deal will go down, how it will be interpreted later, what the situation that they saw through the fog of war, might really have been – and how they might be hung out to dry by Washington lawyers, the media and superior officers covering their own butts. (This situation has apparently got worse. There have been stories recently about officers in Iraq and Afghanistan having to wait during firefights for clearance from Washington lawyers before their troops can pull a trigger.)
Wright shows the damaging effects on morale when civilians are killed unnecessarily, especially children. The military, institutionally, is seen here working hard to avoid it for many reasons. Not everyone is on board. Some troops and officers take no care to avoid shooting non-combatants; you can see the dissension on the front lines as enlisted men caution a trigger-happy superior officer. They shouldn’t have to do that.
Wright makes clear that there’s no indiscriminate slaughter of civilians. Too many of the officers and enlisted men in every unit are struggling to avoid it. But he also shows the general havoc cut loose that does take a lot of civilian lives – that plus air war and artillery strikes that don’t distinguish between civilians and hostiles – and understands that the locals may fail to make this fine distinction.
And he’s honest with himself. One incident raises dissension within the unit: a machine gunner takes out what later proves to be camels and two teenage shepherds in a firefight. The men push their superiors to medevac the more seriously wounded boy, which, ultimately, they do.
Wright isn’t a combatant but he’s exposed to nearly all the danger his military comrades are. And he realizes he’s conflicted in his feelings about Trombley, the young soldier who shot the shepherds – not yet identified as such – on Colbert’s order:
“Something’s been bothering me about Trombley for a day or two, and I can’t help thinking about it now. I was never quite sure if I should believe his claim that he cut up those Iraqis in Al Gharraf. But he hit those two shepherds, one of whom was extremely small, at more than 200 meters, from a Humvee bouncing down a rough road at forty miles per hour. However horrible the results, his work was textbook machine-gun shooting, and the fact is, from now on, every time I ride with Colbert’s team, I feel a lot better when Trombley is by my side with the SAW.”
There’s a lot here for armchair pacifists and generals alike to think about.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
You are there
By Jordan M. Poss
Generation Kill is outstanding. Rather than a political diatribe, which most books on the Iraq War tend to be, Evan Wright has fashioned this book into a fast-paced, detailed, and moving portrait of the men who fight and die in this war. It's one of the best combat memoirs I've yet read.
After embedding with the elite Marines of First Recon just before the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Wright rides with them through ambushes, firefights, and the seemingly endless desert. They meet crowds of waving, grateful civilians and Syrian jihadists desperate to experience war. Good men are wounded in ambushes and, most tragically, in a rear-echelon snafu involving nighttime minesweeping. Throughout, the thoughts and feelings of the soldiers around Wright are at the forefront. Not only do you find out what these Marines do and how, you find out what they think about it and why. This is one of a very few books in which I've felt like I was there.
The very best thing about this book, beyond the intimate knowledge it gives of what goes on in the minds and day-to-day lives of the soldiers in Iraq, is that it provides a ground-level view of what exactly it is like to fight--the subtitle's "New Face of American War." The terror, boredom, pain, excitement, and relief to be alive are all here, sometimes replacing one another within minutes.
Wright also effectively depicts "the fog of war," the terrible inability to know who is the enemy. There are civilian casualties throughout the book, and Wright shows us why--eager soldiers fighting in an environment they have not been fully prepared for, where cars won't stop for roadblocks and enemy soldiers don civilian garb to attack without warning.
What I especially appreciated about the book was that Wright keeps his own views on war in general and this war in particular in the background. In the afterword, new to the HBO miniseries tie-in edition, he alludes to being against the war, but otherwise one is hard-pressed to say where his sentiments lie. This book was written for the soldiers who Wright rode with and got to know so well during the invasion.
If you want to know what soldiers in the Middle East are living through, or even just who these young men are, Generation Kill is the book for you.
Highly recommended.
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