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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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    <body><![CDATA[There is something that Evan Wright was able to do in writing this book that the other authors, even the award winners like Dexter Filkins and Steve Fainaru, were not able to do and that is extricate himself from the story and allow it to be solely about the men. Wright is so invisible in the mix th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52358926">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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