num_pages: 446
description: Another nameless town, another target for First Recon. It's only five in the afternoon, but a sandtorm has plunged everything into a hellish twilight of murky, red dust. On rooftops, in alleyways lurk militiamen with machine guns, AK rifles and the odd rocket-propelled grenade. Artillery bombardment has shattered the town's sewers and rubble is piled up in lagoons of human excrement. It stinks. Welcome to Iraq...First Recon are the special forces of the US Marine Corps, a lean, mean fighting machine trained to perfection and spoiling for action. This is their story as they spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq - a story of extreme bravery, borderline lunacy, touching camaraderie and breathtaking violence on the road to Baghdad.First Recon's thankless task is to race ahead of the main coalition forces to spring enemy ambushes, earning them the nickname 'First Suicide Battalion'. Generation Kill allows an intimate look at how people fighting in war actually experience it, as the voices of soldiers on the front line are heard for the first time.
language: English
title: Generation Kill
titlecomplete: Generation Kill
characters: Josh Ray Person, Robert Timothy Bryan, James Chaffin, Evan Stafford, Dave McGraw, Walt Hasser, Evan Wright, Anthony Jacks, Antonio Espera, Harold James Trombley, Larry Shawn Patrick, Ray Griego, Mike Wynn, Rudy Reyes, Bryan Patterson, John Sixta, Stephen Ferrando, Eric Kocher, Gabe Garza, James Mattis, Nathaniel Fick, Meesh, Brad Colbert, Todd Eckloff, Jason Lilley, Leandro Baptista
genres: History, War, Biography, Military History, Contemporary, Journalism, Memoir, Nonfiction, Military Fiction, Politics
ratings_count: 18210
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Current Interest, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: PEN Center USA Literary Award
category: Research Nonfiction
publisher: Corgi