The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq by John Crawford

Jan 11, 2008 Bethany rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction, memoir, politics

John Crawford was newly married when his National Guard unit was shipped to Baghdad in time for the first wave of invasions in the most recent U.S. project against Iraq. As a member of the National Guard, he should have only been overseas for a couple of months. Instead, Crawford fought for over a year before being sent home. This book tells some of the things he experienced while stationed in Baghdad.

Crawford took his title from the fact that he never wants to tell another true story because th...more

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Apr 06, 2007 Aaron rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A heartbreakingly true account of a soldier's life in the current Iraq war. The author was a National Guardsman who expected to do the "two weeks a year" thing until he was called up to do security detail in Baghda; hence the "accidental soldier" of the title. The horrors he witnessed and the agony and fear he had to endure will be familiar to anyone who reads the paper, but his attention to detail and his pulse-pounding anecdotes bring his tale home. Ultimately, a damning anti-war tale without...more

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May 02, 2013 Kathleen Hagen added it · review of another edition

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The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier’s Account of the War in Iraq, by John Crawford, Narrated by Patrick Lawlor, Produced by Tantor Media, Downloaded from audible.com.

John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition; it had seemed a small sacrifice to give up one weekend a month and two weeks a year in exchange for a free education. But one semester short of graduating, and newly married, he was called to active duty, to serve in Kuwait, then on...more

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Feb 02, 2013 Jay rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction, war

If you ever for some reason stumble upon this review in the endless stream of comments to come. Thank you John Crawford for writing about your experience. I have friends that have served in the military and come back different (most of them not in a good way). I never pester them with questions about their experience because (as you put it well in your own words) I get the strong feeling that they are asked too often and telling true stories about horrible things that happened is not as fun as n...more

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Nov 01, 2012 Deante Cartwright added it

The book tells of a young man who joined the armed forces to help pay for his college tuition. He was attending a university in Florida where he was from. John Crawford was one semester short of graduating, he had only two credits left to obtain and had just recently got married when he was called to active duty in Iraq. When he left for Iraq he was told he would only be in Iraq for a few months. In the beginning he looked at the situation as getting a free education and felt like it was crazy...more The book tells of a young man who joined the armed forces to help pay for his college tuition. He was attending a university in Florida where he was from. John Crawford was one semester short of graduating, he had only two credits left to obtain and had just recently got married when he was called to active duty in Iraq. When he left for Iraq he was told he would only be in Iraq for a few months. In the beginning he looked at the situation as getting a free education and felt like it was crazy for them to be willing to pay for his education while he basically gave nothing. John Crawford goes into detail about some of the things he witnessed and had to partake of while in the war.
At first I thought this book would be somewhat boring because no one would really want to read about war, at least I know I didn’t. I respect what they do but I didn’t want to read about it. As I got into the book I began to have mixed feelings about the army, the armed forces in general and the whole account of war. War has never seemed glorified but you don’t expect to hear the incidents that you hear in this story. It bothers me to know that men who are serving this country could have such poor living conditions, eating conditions and health conditions. I found the book to be very informative in the eyes of the common person who knows nothing of the soldiers who risk their lives every day in a foreign country to protect people they don’t know, outside of protecting their own family. Some many times during the book I thought to myself I would not have survived or I would have went home and stayed at the very first chance I got. It amazes me that after you get your first up close encounter with death that nothing would make you want to live that life again but I do realize that many a men have experienced what the author has experienced and continued to fight the war.
In conclusion, I felt the book was interesting. People hear of the incidents that happen during the war but you never really know what’s happening. People only hear what the media wants you to hear. The soldiers in war are fighting a battle for the U.S but I also feel they are fighting a battle for themselves with reality which seems the hardest battle of all. I’m sure not every soldier would tell of the same horrible stories, some soldiers may have less harsh stories to tell, but the fact that these harsh accounts even exist is disturbing. I feel the story makes the armed forces seem like a bad thing to join. I don’t like the conditions that they go through but I also understand they can’t live lavishly. I commend anyone who has gone through those conditions for their country and whether they came home to a family or no one the fact that they came home is a great accomplishment in itself.
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Apr 14, 2012 Ensiform rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction, war

A collection of possibly quasi-fictive vignettes and memories of the author’s tour patrolling the streets of Baghdad for over a year. He’s an extremely bitter man, and I was struck by how entitled and selfish he paints himself, how little empathy he shows. Even the subtitle, “an accidental soldier,” is misleading: he wasn’t drafted, he signed up for the National Guard. If he didn’t think that made him a soldier, he’s an idiot.

But throughout the book, his behavior and attitudes are shocking. He k...more

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Dec 21, 2011 Tracey Cramer-Kelly rated it 4 of 5 stars

I know it’s a good book when I’m still thinking about it 10 days after I finished it. I was looking for brutal honesty and the raw emotional toll of war (not a factual history tome), and I got it in this book. Sometimes it was as much what WASN’T written as what was (the chapter near the end with the three young boys is a good example). That is a delicate balance for a writer and it was powerful. (Note: toning down the swear words and tightening up the sentence structure would have made it even...more

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Sep 05, 2011 Spencer Hargadon rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: autobiography-memoir, history-ish, own, read-in-2011

It is a well written series of stories and anecdotes of Crawford's time serving in the military. What really gets you about the book is his honest no bullshit assessment of the war, he isn't trying to demonize the military for ruining his life, or make him out to be a galavanting hero, he's just telling you stories, true stories, or if not true, at least ones that he believes. His stories aren't lost in military jargon, and are accessible whether this is your first military book or your 50th. Th...more

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Sep 03, 2011 Jan rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

While I was reading the preface of this book, this was my exact thought: “Wow, this guy is pissed off. This is going to be good.”

I wasn’t wrong. This book is good. It is also gut-churning, heart-wrenching, and devastating. I was riveted. I could hardly put it down. Crawford was clearly very angry when he wrote it, and I don’t blame him. He joined the National Guard to earn money for college. He never expected to be sent to fight a war overseas (and in my opinion he never should have been; that’s...more While I was reading the preface of this book, this was my exact thought: “Wow, this guy is pissed off. This is going to be good.”

I wasn’t wrong. This book is good. It is also gut-churning, heart-wrenching, and devastating. I was riveted. I could hardly put it down. Crawford was clearly very angry when he wrote it, and I don’t blame him. He joined the National Guard to earn money for college. He never expected to be sent to fight a war overseas (and in my opinion he never should have been; that’s not the intent of the National Guard). He received his orders for deployment while he was on his honeymoon, two credits shy of graduating college and less than a year from the end of his Guard contract. He ended up stuck in Iraq for more than a year.

Yeah, I’d be pretty angry too.

Luckily for us, the anger he felt led him to write in a clear, strong, and honest voice. This is no book about the glories of the war. Crawford is brutal in his honesty, even though the picture it paints doesn’t make him or his fellow soldiers look particularly good. There’s drug and alcohol abuse, plenty of stupid decisions, and a shockingly callous attitude toward the plight of the Iraqi people. You would think that this would make you end up hating these men, but I never felt that way. Crawford is such a deft writer that I totally understood where these men were coming from, why they would feel the way they did and why they acted that way.

This is an ugly book, and yet, in its ugliness, there’s exquisite beauty.

In general, I’m not particularly inclined to include warnings for books. You should know what you’re getting into when you read the description on the jacket. But I think this one warrants a few:

1. There is A LOT of swearing in this book. These are soldiers, people. Expect a lot of F-bombs.

2. There is some very, very graphic violence in this book. Be advised that if I’m warning you of this, it’s pretty bad.

3. This book does not have a happy ending. I can only hope that Crawford’s life has improved greatly since he wrote the epilogue.
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Jan 06, 2010 Andrew rated it 3 of 5 stars

A friend, Sean Coutain, gave me this book a couple years ago, and I didn't read it then because I was just back from Iraq and not interested. I finally picked it up last week and flew through it.

Crawford's experience was much different than mine. In part, because he was there at the start--it was the wild west and living conditions were at their most primitive. I had expected this book to be an indictment of the Iraq War, and maybe that's even what Crawford intended. Instead, however, I found i...more

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Apr 12, 2013 Scott rated it 2 of 5 stars

The book's lack of a narrative arc is probably true to Crawford's experience in Iraq and perhaps to many other war narratives: it is a tale of survival and that is all. If the narrative were structured to create some bigger impression, to make a "point," or even demonstrate some deep understanding of the experiences there, then it wouldn't be "true." (In this sense, Crawford's book suggests the influence of Tim O'Brien's famous story "How to Tell a True War Story." The book title suggests this t...more The book's lack of a narrative arc is probably true to Crawford's experience in Iraq and perhaps to many other war narratives: it is a tale of survival and that is all. If the narrative were structured to create some bigger impression, to make a "point," or even demonstrate some deep understanding of the experiences there, then it wouldn't be "true." (In this sense, Crawford's book suggests the influence of Tim O'Brien's famous story "How to Tell a True War Story." The book title suggests this too.)

I generally think of wartime trauma coming from more traumatic events than those depicted here -- extended exposure to danger in combat situations, witnessing multiple deaths of comrades, etc. Crawford's story seems to be more of the price paid by prolonged exposure to boredom, harsh conditions, futility of effort, to impoverished and traumatized people, and second-hand death (seeing people killed by others rather than seeing the killing firsthand). He makes a passing remark about bullets passing by his head and being shelled, but he provides no narration of those events.

One theme that comes out is the rather unenlightened response: if I am unhappy, at least some other people can suffer along with me, if not suffer more than I do. This rationale is offered more than once to explain some cruel trick played on a fellow soldier or an Iraqi citizen. It is perhaps too much to expect an enlightened response in such conditions. But the book does demonstrate a common human reaction to personal suffering -- take some "revenge" on the world by causing more suffering.

And yet there are moments of random compassion and kindness. Again, to expect coherence and consistency in war is to expect the impossible.

Some people come to war narratives seeking tales of humans realizing their best selves in the face of adversity. Those narratives exist (Band of Brothers, for instance). But there are more stories than that to tell about war and its cost; this is one of them, telling the unglorified story of a human response to an awful situation.

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Sep 28, 2010 Brandon Tong rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Book Review: The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier’s Account of the War in Iraq by John Crawford
“Hey Crawford, you got a piece of brain on your foot”. Florida National Guardsmen, John Crawford, was two credits away from graduation FSU. He was newly married and on his honeymoon when he was called to the front lines of the invasion force of Iraq. In between his patrols, he started writing stories about what happened to him and his squad. These stories became The Last True Sto...more Book Review: The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier’s Account of the War in Iraq by John Crawford
“Hey Crawford, you got a piece of brain on your foot”. Florida National Guardsmen, John Crawford, was two credits away from graduation FSU. He was newly married and on his honeymoon when he was called to the front lines of the invasion force of Iraq. In between his patrols, he started writing stories about what happened to him and his squad. These stories became The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier’s Account of the War in Iraq. In this book review I will write why this book is worth five out of five stars because of its vivid portrayals of a squad in Iraq.
The book The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier’s Account of the War in Iraq draws the reader in with vivid descriptions of the Iraqi deserts, people, and patrols. In the book we see John Crawford changes from a somewhat innocent and relaxed college kid that wanted nothing to do with the war in Iraq, to a man who gets angry sometimes he sees a Middle Eastern person in America. He is changed through the events of the book one being “The one holding the rifle turned it towards me, it seemed so slow how he moved… They were silhouetted black against the sunset. The muzzle was almost on me… I applied pressure to the trigger. I don’t know if that was before or after I realized the rest of the rifle was missing. The trigger was gone as was the buttstock and bolt. Someone had killed a hajji there the day before and just ran over his rifle with their tract rendering it useless. That kid couldn’t have shot spitballs through ti even if he had wanted to.” (208) This change is evidenced in the quote “I rarely get into fights with people who I imagine are “eyeballing me” (219). Crawford also shows the reader vivid descriptions in “The wounded man lay in the fetal position, cradling his bloodied groin. The bullet had hit him on the head of his penis and run down his shaft. After it hit the pelvis, it curved around and exited though his testicle.” (120). This quote is interesting because Crawford had created a picture of a man after he had been shot in the penis.
I gave this book a five out of five because of its vivid portrayals of a squad in Iraq. These men whether they believe in the war is right or not, they still put their lives on the line in Iraq. I believe that this is an ultimate sacrifice that anyone can do for their country. John Crawford changed, that’s the simplest way to put it and that’s what war does to people, it changes them. He used to be a relaxed person and joined the National Guard so he could use their money to pay for college in exchange for two weeks a year. That is until he was called to do security details in Iraq (patrols). Through the book he is changed through the events of the book one being “He was looking at us, both eyes perfectly focused despite the fact that half his brain was all over the car. Just nevers, I thought. His nerves are popping and he’s already dead, like a snake after you cut of its head. But then his eyes shifted, first from me, then Pohl, then back to me.” (140). These kind of events that Crawford experienced will for sure change someone.
The book ends unceremoniously with Crawford recapping his life after the war. Overall the book was a great read and very engaging. Through its vivid portrayals of everyday life as a soldier in Iraq, John Crawford had written an unforgettable first hand encounter of Iraq and is a definite must read. I give The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier’s Account of the War in Iraq a five out of five stars.
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Apr 21, 2011 Jennie rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011-reading-list

I have a bit of trouble with the title, because I don't really think there's anything "Accidental" about it. There is no draft, so Crawford knew what he was signing up for...or did he. Because the thing is, prior to 9/11, the military was seen differently, more of an easy way to pay for college, not something where you're almost certainly going to get sent to war. So on one hand, man up, you signed up for it. On the other hand, at the time he did sign up, things were different, so...there's a bi...more

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May 14, 2013 Ricky Roach rated it 5 of 5 stars

The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell is probably my favorite book of all time. The events the Crawford writes about are unlike anything I have ever heard. You can’t get this from watching the news or hearing it in the radio. I know that reading about what he went through is nothing like actually going through it but the book’s details were so real that I felt like I was actually there. From smell and color of a steam of Copenhagen to the hot and humid building that smelled like human feces, I felt...more

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Nov 04, 2011 Michael rated it 4 of 5 stars

A grim, tersely-written series of vignettes from the author's time in a National Guard unit sent to Iraq. Crawford was a soldier prior to college and his tenure in the Guard but hadn't been in combat before, and even he is periodically numbed by the surroundings and overwhelmed by the heat, the endless boredom punctuated by horrific violence, and (infrequently) the drugs and alcohol that his unit can find. Not taken seriously by the regular Army, his "group of college students" gets passed aroun...more

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Feb 04, 2009 Heidi rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction, read2006orbefore

This is as clear a case as has ever been made of how the business of war creates sociopaths, and how those human beings cope with the continuous survival through a hellish situation. A person must either disconnect from other human beings (the enemy) so thoroughly until he is callous and jaded and take on a macabre sense of humor, or he must go crazy with grief. Then when he comes home he cannot relate normally to his friends, his spouse, his family, even the grocery store. He must live with the...more

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Jun 10, 2009 Brian rated it 4 of 5 stars

A friend of mine, an Iraq-war vet, suggested I read this book. It's a powerful and traumatic experience he went through, and this book is an authentic portrayal of his time there, I was told. Powerful it is, from accounts of arriving in combat to find vietnam-era equipment, cold-war mentalities of commanders, and generally disheartening dangers presented by the local combatants.

It's a compelling and quick read, and it isn't all horror stories. Some parts are endearing, and some are quite sad, b...more

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Mar 19, 2009 Connie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

I recently ended my Active Duty military career and I was flooded with so many different thoughts about this book and the experiences of its author/soldier. The overwhelming thoughts were how proud I am to have been associated, in even the slightest ways, with the folks who get the job done, and the shame that some leadership lost sight of whole mission to focus on their own glory.
John Crawford's story caught my attention from the first paragraph of the Prelude and wouldn't let it go until I clo...more

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Nov 27, 2012 Craig Toerpe rated it 5 of 5 stars

The title grabbed my attention right away. War seen through the eyes of a young man, who was almost ready to graduate, and who was also newly married. War does change people. The book is graphic, and at some points during the read, I wish his accounts were just made up...but they are not. When I finished the book, I wanted to shake his hand, personally say Thank You, and I'm Sorry. Thank You for your service and defending our country, and I'm Sorry for how the same country that you loved and def...more

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Feb 14, 2012 Mike Gottert rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: iraq

Crawford was a member of the Florida National Guard and in The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell he documents his time in Iraq. The thing that most stood out to me was how much this book sounded like the Vietnam memoirs I read years ago. If you changed Iraq to Vietnam, desert to jungle, and valium to marijuana, this would almost pass as a book about Vietnam. If I was a better writer I would probably write something about how this shows some grand meaning about the face of war, but I’m not, so I won...more

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Jun 23, 2009 Visha Burkart rated it 2 of 5 stars

I could see where Crawford might have been in a writing class and someone said, "Hey, you're writing about your experiences as a soldier in war? Here, read this-" and hands him a copy of Tim O'Brian's The Things They Carried. While the title of Crawford's book and his final chapter are strongly reminiscent of O'Brian's essay "How to Tell a True War Story," it lacks the artistry, the finesse, the ironic tone of O'Brian's work. Crawford is, to put it bluntly (and in his own words): "pissed off."

"Y...more I could see where Crawford might have been in a writing class and someone said, "Hey, you're writing about your experiences as a soldier in war? Here, read this-" and hands him a copy of Tim O'Brian's The Things They Carried. While the title of Crawford's book and his final chapter are strongly reminiscent of O'Brian's essay "How to Tell a True War Story," it lacks the artistry, the finesse, the ironic tone of O'Brian's work. Crawford is, to put it bluntly (and in his own words): "pissed off."

"You guys don't want to hear a war story. None of them make any fucking sense" (203) - these sentiments are not the only thing similar to "How to Tell a True War Story", so is the construction of the last chapter, as Crawford takes the reader with him to a seafood festival back home, showing the colorful characters who inhabit his North Florida hometown, and then after telling a harrowing story of shooting a young boy, WAKES UP (yes, you read that correctly) to discover that he's still back in Iraq and life is hell. It felt like a piece that was strongly worked over in writing class.

I wondered about the organization of this book - specifically, the title chapter ("The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell") was the last chapter, before the epilogue) and might have opened the book better than the way it currently opens.

The Last True Story... reads more like a diary - it's almost uniformly angry in tone and the acronyms used by the author are not explained. Places and terms are dropped onto the page; it's up to the reader to define them.

Something that I thought was interesting was the way Crawford reacts to people with Arabic appearances when he returns. He does not deny his irrational anger towards them. In one instance, he walks into a convenience store and immediately leaves when he sees that the proprietor is Arabic; in another moment, later in the book, he states "...every Arabic-looking person I saw gave me a funny feeling of anger inside..." (173).

While he is specific regarding the various indignities and dangers of serving in Iraq, he is far more vague when discussing his bride and what transpired between them (or with her) that left him alone and scrounging for food and shelter when he returned to the states. I suppose, though, the reader can create her own story.

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Oct 31, 2010 Mike rated it 4 of 5 stars

I read somewhere, I can't remember where, that the current armed forces are the most literate soldiery in world history and the volume of war memoirs are proof of this.

I heard this author interviewed on NPR and he was very funny, which made me read the book.

The book, of course, wasn't always funny because it is about war after all. It is funny, sad, heartbreaking, and sometimes inspiring. There are a number of excellent war memoirs, so many you certainly can't read them all. Be sure to make tim...more

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May 06, 2012 Dakota rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: military

War memoirs are often better when the writer is jaded and angry. This is a good example of such a memoir.

Crawford doesn't write a continuous story of his time in Iraq. Instead he includes several smaller stories of him doing various things. The majority of them are not about his combat experience, but what he did while at the base and his interactions with civilians.

I didn't mind that there was not a lot of combat stories, they tend to get repetitive when written, but everything he writes is rea...more

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Aug 20, 2008 Christina rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: middle-east

I'm extremely ambivalent about this book. It was very well-written and gritty, and I definitely got caught up in the stories. Very reminiscent of O'Brien's "The Things They Carried," but with the dark humor of Catch-22. I appreciated the raw honesty of the author. He did not gloss over the ugly parts of war or try to make out shameful behavior to be heroic, and that was refreshing.

That being said, I could never really like or empathize with him. He just didn't seem like a very good or likeable p...more

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Jan 08, 2011 Kristi rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I only got to page 50 before I gave up reading it. I hardly ever not finish a book I start, but I just could not keep reading. Someone compared it to O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" but I thought it was not anything like that book! This one was more factual and straightforward whereas O'Brien told his stories poetically, blending fiction with truth. It just wasn't the book for me. I could see it being a very powerful read for many people--just too much military in it for my taste.

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Dec 08, 2009 Robin rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: for-your-listening-pleasure

More a collection of essays than a straight narrative -- each can stand alone as its own story and you can take your time with it. If you are listening, you may need to. The reader has an intense delivery that serves the writer's voice, but can become tiring over long stretches. If some of these accounts are difficult to read, they can be even harder to hear. This is not family material. But as an account of what daily life is like for our troops, this sounds like the truth.

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Aug 12, 2007 Dan rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Americans

Contrary to the title, which definitely implies that this book is nonfiction, this is a fiction book. At least, it is sold as fiction; and the author in the epilogue admits that it is fiction, although claiming it is inspired by actual events that happened to him. This was very problematic for this book. Instead of reading this and saying "Wow, this is what it is like for a soldier in Iraq." I kept wondering "What of this is real and what isn't?" Truth is the first casualty of war, and part of t...more

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Mar 11, 2009 Ted Mallory rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction, progressive

Holy crap! I don't know which is more amazing, what we put our young soldiers through in the name of oil, or what an outstanding job Crawford does of writing about it! He's a very gifted writer and I hope that he succeeds in turning it into a career. Even if he doesn't, this may end up being a quintessential book about the Iraq War. Give it a chance and it will break your heart, humble you, make you laugh, fascinate and trouble you all at the same time.

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Mar 21, 2010 Serena rated it 5 of 5 stars

AMAZING! If anyone really wants to know and appreciate the American ground perspective of Iraq then I highly recommend this book. Warning: It is as raw, intense and honest as they come. Crawford also has a unique gift for putting his reader in his shoes without seeming contrived in the least. Any person responsible for any aspect of US foreign policy should be required to read this book, and quite frankly, any American voter.

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Feb 16, 2010 Lori rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction, read-in-2010, feb-2010

4.5.

Great perspective on the war from a soldier's POV. I saw an interview w/the author on The Daily Show and immediately put this on my list. So far my hubby and I have read it, next up is oldest son. It sounds like everyday life for soldiers hasn't really changed that much since Vietnam in terms of the drugs, and the cruddy work, and oh, how I wish this one had a happy ending. Although he came home. That's happy.

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