Author: GALLAGHER, MATT
Title: Kaboom Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War
Description: Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2010. Hardcover. ISBN: 0306818809. B&W Map & Illustrations; 9 X 6.30 X 1.30 inches; xv, 310 pages; Hard cover is taupe with black cloth spine with orange lettering on it. DJ has light bumping, rubbing, scuffing to it. Pages are clean and tight. Appears as if unused. Illustrated with a b/w map and b/w photographs. “A first-person account of life where the IED hits the road. Gallagher’s first command—a scout platoon—is a classic picture of soldiers drawn straight from the American underclass…They are flawlessly presented as the Joes of the Iraq and Afghan wars…Gallagher’s men are rich in irony and political incorrectness". “[A] half comic, half heart-breaking hour-by-hour account. ”“Gallagher is the voice of this war. ”. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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