Generation Kill

De: Evan Wright

Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor

They were called a generation without heroes. Then they were called upon to be heroes. 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 warriors unrecognizable to their forebears - soldiers raised on hip-hop, Internet porn, Marilyn Manson, video games, and The Real World, 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 "First Suicide Battalion" would spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq and fight against the hardest resistance Saddam had to offer.

Generation Kill 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.

©2008 Evan Wright (P)2008 Tantor

Great writer- Great Narrator!

I listened 3 times. This book is one of my "cult classics" already.
narration is excellent. Well written. I need more of this style.

The bringing to light what war is like and the accurate telling of it

What I enjoyed most about Generation Kill were the funny remarks and conversations throughout. Person was absolutely hilarious

intense reporting

Very intense story of soldiers and what they deal with in a time of war. I imagine that only soldiers who actually served can really know what it is like to go through something like this. This book is comparable to other biographies and histories I've read in the last five to ten years.

Great insight

Finally a narrator that fits the story being told. And if you are a vet of any kind you will understand every detail of this story. If not a vet will open your mind to what really goes on behind the scenes and news reels! Highly recommend

Immersive

A highly accurate portrayal of the bonds of Marine combat units in theater, especially the mentality and ethos that turn professional relationships into bonds of brotherhood through eagerly applied training and demonstration of skillsets, adapting in real time to dynamic situational needs, ever present in the fog of war, to face the hardships and challenges of warfare, the ego, hubris and fallibility of man amidst the demands of maneuver warfare. Get some!