Title: Generation Kill
First published: 2004
Description: They were called a generation without heroes.  Then they were called upon to be heroes.

Within hours of 9/11, America's war on terrorism fell to those like the twenty-three Marines of the First recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam.  They were a new pop-culture breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears - soldiers raised on hip hop, video games and The Real World.  Cock, brave, headstrong, wary and mostly unprepared for the physical, emotional and moral horrors ahead, the "First Suicide Battalion" would spearhead the blitzkreig on Iraq, and fight against the hardest resistance Saddam had to offer.

Now a major HBO event, Generation Kill is the nation bestselling book based on the National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone.  It is the funny, frightening, and profane firsthand account of these remarkable men, of the personal toll of victory, and of the randomness, brutality and camaraderie of a new American War.
Subjects: American Personal narratives, Iraq War, 2003, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Iraq War, 2003-, American Reconnaissance operations, United States. Marine Corps. Marine Division, 1st, United States, Irakkrieg, Personal narratives, American, Kriegfuhrung, Iraq War (2003-2011) fast (OCoLC)fst01802311, Iraq war, 2003-2011, personal narratives, United states, marine corps, Military reconnaissance, nyt:paperback-nonfiction=2008-08-03, New York Times bestseller, United States. Marine Corps. Recon Battalion, 1st
Places: Iraq
LC classification: DS79.76 .W75 2004