The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell
Author: Crawford, John
ISBN: 9781594482014
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 04 Apr 2006
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback / softback
In the tradition of Michael Herr's i>Dispatches/i>, a National Guardsman's account of the war in Iraq.br>br>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.p>Crawford and his unit spent months upon months patrolling the streets of Baghdad, occupying a hostile city. During the breaks between patrols, Crawford beganrecording what he and his fellow soldiers witnessed and experienced. Those stories became i>The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell/i>-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./p>
ISBN: 9781594482014
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 04 Apr 2006
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback / softback
In the tradition of Michael Herr's i>Dispatches/i>, a National Guardsman's account of the war in Iraq.br>br>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.p>Crawford and his unit spent months upon months patrolling the streets of Baghdad, occupying a hostile city. During the breaks between patrols, Crawford beganrecording what he and his fellow soldiers witnessed and experienced. Those stories became i>The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell/i>-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./p>
