The green marine
By: Graham Dale ; with Neil Fetherstonhaugh.
Contributors: Fetherstonhaugh, Neil.
Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland; Hodder Headline Ireland
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780340960271
Subjects: Dale, Graham, -- 1978-; United States. -- Marine Corps; Iraq War, 2003- -- Personal narratives, American; Irish -- United States; War on Terrorism, 2001-
Genres: Personal narratives, American
Other titles: An Irishman's war in Iraq
Description: "Dubliner Graham Dale was volunteering with a Texan fire department when the planes hit the World Trade Center in New York. As events unfolded, he realised that he had to do something to defend his adopted country. There and then, he made a decision that would affect the rest of his life -he drove to the nearest army recruitment centre and enlisted in the US Marines. After surviving the notoriously tough San Diego boot camp, he joined the ranks of one of the most elite branches of the United States military and, two years later, found himself patrolling the dangerous western desert of war-torn Iraq. Throughout his deployment in Iraq, Dale kept a journal which gives us an astonishing account of one man's fight in the front line of America's War on Terror. Told with brutal honesty, he gives us the unique and rare perspective of an Irishman fighting for a foreign army in a very foreign land."--BOOK JACKET.