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    <![CDATA[Generation Kill]]>
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    <![CDATA[Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terrorism fell to those like the 23 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 <em>The Real World</em>, 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 &quot;First Suicide Battalion&quot; would spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq, and fight against the hardest resistance Saddam had to offer.  <br/><br/>  <em>Generation Kill</em> 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.]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Evan Wright]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Readers curious about Iraq invasion or Marines, Readers who like dark humor and grit]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 15 09:43:11 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 10 07:54:09 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I knew virtually nothing about the Iraq invasion--especially the conditions on the ground.  This book made much of the military strategy (and some of the most shocking, sad, and funny moments) quite real to me. It did so without losing me in military terminology, or seeming patronizing by dumbing it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40148687">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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