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John Crawford Livres
Cet auteur, un vétéran américain de la guerre en Irak, est connu pour ses mémoires à succès sur son service en Irak. Son écriture explore avec puissance les expériences du combat et leur impact profond sur l'individu. D'une honnêteté brute et d'une profonde réflexion, son œuvre offre une expérience de lecture captivante et inoubliable. Sa voix offre une perspective unique depuis le front et la psyché du soldat.
In the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches , a National Guardsman's account of the war in Iraq.John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition, willingly exchanging one weekend a month and two weeks a year for a free education. But in Autumn 2002, one semester short of graduating and newly married—in fact, on his honeymoon—he was called to active duty and sent to the front lines in Iraq. Crawford and his unit spent months upon months patrolling the streets of Baghdad, occupying a hostile city. During the breaks between patrols, Crawford began recording what he and his fellow soldiers witnessed and experienced. Those stories became The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell —a haunting and powerful, compellingly honest book that imparts the on-the-ground reality of waging the war in Iraq, and marks as the introduction of a mighty literary voice forged in the most intense of circumstances.