Generation Kill
Devil Dogs, Ice Man, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
by Evan Wright
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appears in War History, Military, and History.
Based on Evan Wright's National Magazine Awardwinning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO(R) original miniseries. Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terrorism fell to those like the twentythree Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into ope...
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appears in War History, Military, and History.
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