Title: Eat the apple : a memoir /
Authors: Young, Matt, 1986-
Year: 2018
Subjects: Young, Matt,; United States. Military life.; United States. Biography.; Iraq War, 2003-2011 Personal narratives, American; Marines United States Biography; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.; California, Southern Biography.
Abstract: Matt Young joined the Marine Corps at age eighteen. The teenage wasteland he fled followed him to the training bases charged with making him a Marine. Matt survived the training and then not one, not two, but three deployments to Iraq. Visceral, ironic, self-lacerating, and ultimately redemptive, Young's story drops us unarmed into Marine Corps culture and lays bare the absurdism of 21st-century war, the manned-up vulnerability of those on the front lines, and the true, if often misguided, motivations that drove a young man to a life at war.