num_pages: 261
description: A Marines chronicle of the Gulf War and other battles: "Swofford's Jarhead is not just the finest memoir to emerge from Operation Desert Storm but one of the most honest and compelling accounts of men at arms in a generation...", Scott Anderson, war journalist.
language: English
title: Jarhead: a Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
titlecomplete: Jarhead: a Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
genres: Biography, Military History, Military Fiction, American History, War, Nonfiction, Autobiography, History, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 11241
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir
publisher: Scribner