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My War

Killing Time in Iraq

Colby Buzzell author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd

Published:13th Feb '06

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An extraordinary account of the war in Iraq.

and the hesitation of a young soldier who had been passed around from platoon to platoon because he was too afraid to fight.
My War is a powerful story of a young man and a war, unlike any you have read before.

'Once we passed the checkpoint at the border, it hit me. I was like, Holy Shit, this is it, I'm entering a combat zone. Cool!'

At twenty-six Colby Buzzell, unemployed and living at home, decided to join the US Army. Within months he was in Iraq, a machine gunner in the controversial Stryker Brigade Combat Team, an army unit on the cutting edge of combat technology and the first of its kind.

Trapped amid 'guerrilla warfare, urban-style' in Mosul, Iraq, Buzzell was struck by the bizarre and often frightening world surrounding him. He began writing a blog describing the war - not as being reported by CNN or official briefings - but as experienced by the soldier on the ground. His story is a brutally honest and hard-hitting account of the absurdities of modern war. These are the real stories of the war: a firefight where the resistance came from 'men in black'; a night spent chain-smoking in the guard tower counting the tracer bullets being fired over the city; and the hesitation of a young soldier who had been passed around from platoon to platoon because he was too afraid to fight.
My War is a powerful story of a young man and a war, unlike any you have read before.

'My War by Colby Buzzell is nothing less than the soul of an extremely interesting human being at war on our behalf in Iraq' * Kurt Vonnegut *

  • Winner of Lulu Blooker Prize: Non-Fiction 2007
  • Winner of Lulu Blooker Prize: Overall Winner 2007

ISBN: 9780552154376

Dimensions: 198mm x 127mm x 25mm

Weight: 283g

416 pages