Generation Kill (häftad)
Format
Häftad (B-format paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
480
Utgivningsdatum
2009-02-27
Förlag
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Dimensioner
195 x 125 x 30 mm
Vikt
337 g
ISBN
9780552158930

Generation Kill

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Häftad,  Engelska, 2009-02-27
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Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met any of these people, who serve as front-line troops. For whatever reason, the media simply doesn't get them. As we all know, news accounts of the last two wars focused almost exclusively on battlefield imagery of high-tech weapons wreaking astounding destruction, comply with analysis from retired army grandees and other experts, punctuated by the odd heart-warming patriotic sound-bite. The troops themselves play a role in the media's presentation of recent wars rather like extras in The Triumph of the Will. They are everywhere yet somehow invisible. When they speak you get the sense that what they are saying has been carefully scripted. Now Generation Kill tells the soldiers' story in their own words. The narrative focuses on a platoon of 23 marines, many of them veterans of Afghanistan, whose elite reconnaissance unit spearheaded the blitzkrieg on Iraq. This is the story of young men that have been trained to become ruthless killers. It's about surviving death. It's about taking part in a war many questioned before it even began. Evan Wright was the only reporter with First Recon, which operated well ahead of most other forces, usually behind enemy lines. They were among the first marines sent into the fight and one of the last units still engaged on the outskirts of Iraq, even after the city centre fell. Generation Kill is not just a combat chronicle but an inside look at how people fighting in war actually experience it. It is both an action narrative like Black Hawk Down and a detailed portrait of a generation at war along the lines of Band of Brothers. It is not a book you are going to forget in a hurry...

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  1. Rått och realistiskt om en förlorad generation
    Where's Lono?, 30 mars 2022

    Fantastisk bok. Många har sett serien på HBO med samma namn som baserats på boken. Den är fantastisk på många sätt med briljanta rollprestationer. Det handlar om USAs intåg i Irak i jakten på massförstörelsevapen och Saddam i kölvattnet av 9/11. Det tv-serien också lyckas med är att ge ett överdrivet korkat intryck av en mängd av karaktärerna och dessutom en högst felaktig bild av deras relationer. Boken beskriver en grupp soldater som trots relativt inkompetenta befäl är en amerikansk elitst... Läs hela recensionen

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EVAN WRIGHT is the author of Generation Kill, one of the most celebrated books on the Iraq War and recently adapted by David Simon into a 7-hour HBO miniseries. He is a recipient of the National Magazine Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Award, a PEN/Faulkner Award and a Lukas Book Prize. He is also a contributing editor to Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair.