This is an amazing collection of stories from the men and women who have served and are still serving our country. The author personally interviewed each of the service men and coaxed from them both heart-wrenching and heart-warming tales from the front lines in Iraq.

Outstanding book, should be read by everyone!

This book is a collection of personal accounts from young soldiers in Iraq. It truly depicts the horrors of war from a first person perspective. One of the people described their experience and talked about how one of the captains got shot in the face. When they arrived to him, his entire face was bloody, and soldiers tryed asking him where he got hit. But he couldn't respond.
Soldiers described their experiences as very confusing and overwhelming, yet it was very energetic and full of adrenaline. Bullets were flying everywhere. Loud noises of war were coming from all directions.

Read this a few yrs ago. Great book !!!

This book is really interesting. It tells you what is happening in Iraq. This book has a lot of information and it gives details about how are soldiers living in Iraq. If you want to know how the soldiers from America are living and how they feel over in Iraq this is the good book to read.

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A must read to get a better perspective on war in Iraq.

Real understanding of what's going on with the soldiers who are fighting for our freedom. Scary the crap these men are subject to. I am very proud of our troupes, and even more so after this book.

This book was an autobiography of solders in the Iraq war. As such it doesn’t really have a story line, unless you count history as the plot. Trish Wood is in reality only the compiler of many oral histories. The vast majority of the book is what appear to be transcribed interviews with veterans of the Iraq war. The conflict in this book is obviously based on the war, with American troops fighting against insurgents in Iraq, and there is plenty of conflict. To be honest that made the book in the words of New York Times review “Chilling”. It wasn’t censored, or made easy to read. In some cases it was graphic, not for the sake of violence, or to capture your attention but simply to tell the truth of those solders experiences. That is what in my opinion makes the book chilling, the fact that it is horrifying often in telling the honest and unexaggerated truth.

Forget all the charged rhetoric of armchair generals with political agendas. You'll do better to read the range of views presented here. Get it straight from the mouths on the ground.

if you are american, read this. shit, if you're HUMAN, read this. the voices are varied, complex, and painfully self-aware. harrowing! and yet... utterly gripping.

This book is a real eye-opener!

Everyone should read it! I think it would teach the kids in High School a lot more than some of the required reading they have now. Everyone should know what these guys went through and the sacrifices they made for this country. (Not trying to get political) And especially those who think they get paid too much...