THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NOW IN PAPERBACK When Swofford went to the Gulf as a nineteen-year-old scout-sniper in the Marines, he had been trained to kill with a single shot. To kill would mean he was a good soldier. When he came back, he had lived through weeks of fear and boredom in the desert, under enemy and friendly fire, surrounded by men reduced to their basest instincts. The person he had come closest to killing was himself. PRAISE FOR JARHEAD 'Remarkable. A scathingly honest and bleakly powerful book. A hugely disturbing insight into the minds of the very young men who long to go to war' William Boyd 'A terrific memoir: intelligently self-aware, moving and considered. I would recommend this book to anyone' A.L. Kennedy 'Astonishing' The Times 'A miniature masterpiece; a classic account of war and the warriors who wage it. Already, Anthony Swofford's literary debut is being mentioned in the same breath as novels such as Catch-22 and The Naked and the Dead' Daily Telegraph 'An excellent book, certainly among the finest memoirs about soldiering I've read. I urge you to buy it' Aidan Hartly, Literary Review 'I have read many books about war and combat. Apart from actual events in Vietnam somewhat like Swofford's, nothing about war has affected me like Jarhead' Jonathan Mirsky, Spectator 'A book that combines the black humour of Catch-22 with the savagery of Full Metal Jacket and the visceral detail of The Things They Carried' New York Times
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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NOW IN PAPERBACK
When Swofford went to the Gulf as a nineteen-year-old scout-sniper in the Marines, he had been trained to kill with a single shot. To kill would mean he was a good soldier.
When he came back, he had lived through weeks of fear and boredom in the desert, under enemy and friendly fire, surrounded by men reduced to their basest instincts. The person he had come closest to killing was himself.
PRAISE FOR JARHEAD
'Remarkable. A scathingly honest and bleakly powerful book. A hugely disturbing insight into the minds of the very young men who long to go to war' William Boyd
'A terrific memoir: intelligently self-aware, moving and considered. I would recommend this book to anyone' A.L. Kennedy
'Astonishing' The Times
'A miniature masterpiece; a classic account of war and the warriors who wage it. Already, Anthony Swofford's literary debut is being mentioned in the same breath as novels such as Catch-22 and
The Naked and the Dead' Daily Telegraph
'An excellent book, certainly among the finest memoirs about soldiering I've read. I urge you to buy it' Aidan Hartly, Literary Review
'I have read many books about war and combat. Apart from actual events in Vietnam somewhat like Swofford's, nothing about war has affected me like Jarhead' Jonathan Mirsky, Spectator
'A book that combines the black humour of Catch-22 with the savagery of Full Metal Jacket and the visceral detail of The Things They Carried' New York Times
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