A review by sbelasco40
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Ice Man, Captain America, and the New Face of American War by Evan Wright

4.0

Reading this book after seeing the HBO miniseries was interesting because it filled in a lot of the gaps - backstory, the general context, the political implications of the Recon Marine Unit's actions as the first boots on the ground in the 2nd Iraq War (OIF). Inevitably I compared the text to the miniseries in my mind, and I knew the ending from the start (who doesn't?) but Wright has laid down a remarkable story here, even if he's kind of smug about it. When he sticks to the words of the soldiers he's the most compelling - less so when he editorializes about a war he and these Marines still don't really understand.