Generation Kill

The true story of Bravo Company in Iraq – Marines who deal in bullets, bombs ed ultraviolence

Generation Kill – The true story of Bravo Company in Iraq – Marines who deal in bullets, bombs ed ultraviolence, Evan Wright Another nameless town, another target for First Recon. It’s only cinque in the afternoon, but a sandstorm has plunged everything into a hellish twilight of murky, red dust. On rooftops, in alleyways lurk miliziani con mitragliatrici, AK rifles e the odd rocket-propelled grenade. Artiglieria bombardment has shattered the town’s sewers e 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 e spoiling for action. This is their story as they spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq – a story of extreme bravery, borderline lunacy, touching camaraderie e 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.

Evan Wright is a contributing editor on Rolling Stone magazine. He spent due months living con a platoon of Marine reconnaissance soldiers during the war in Iraq.

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Titolo: Generation Kill
Living dangerously on the road to Baghdad con the ultraviolent Marines of Bravo Company
Epoca: Seconda Guerra del Golfo, Iraq 2003
Tipo: War Reporting
Autore: Evan Wright
Formato: 448-page paperback con 33 photos e 2 maps
Lingua: Inglese
Casa Editrice: Corgi Books, London, England
ISBN: 0-552-15189-0
Pubblicato: 2004

Evan Wright accompanied Second Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Marine Recon Battalion on their daring ride from Camp Mathilda in Kuwait, via Safwan, Nasiriyah, Al Gharraf, Ar Rifa, Qala Suhar, Al Muwaffaqiyah, Al Kut, Al Hayy, An Numaniyah, Sarabadi, Salman Pak, e Baqubah, to Baghdad, ed Ad Diwaniyah. Unlike anything they had trained for, these Marine special warfare soldiers rode point for Coalition Forces in flimsy Humvees scrounged from motor pools e scrap yards in the USA, e hastily put into working condition prior to their departure for Kuwait. Under the previously untried maneuver warfare doctrine they were tasked to drive into e through known ambush sites, clear them, e ride on.

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