Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met any of these people, who serve as front-line troops. For whatever reason, the media simply doesn't get them. As we all know, news accounts of the last two wars focused almost exclusively on battlefield imagery of high-tech weapons wreaking astounding destruction, comply with analysis from retired army grandees ...
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Generation Kill is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met any of these people, who serve as front-line troops. For whatever reason, the media simply doesn't get them. As we all know, news accounts of the last two wars focused almost exclusively on battlefield imagery of high-tech weapons wreaking astounding destruction, comply with analysis from retired army grandees and other experts, punctuated by the odd heart-warming patriotic sound-bite. The troops themselves play a role in the media's presentation of recent wars rather like extras in The Triumph of the Will. They are everywhere yet somehow invisible. When they speak you get the sense that what they are saying has been carefully scripted. Now Generation Kill tells the soldiers' story in their own words. The narrative focuses on a platoon of 23 marines, many of them veterans of Afghanistan, whose elite reconnaissance unit spearheaded the blitzkrieg on Iraq. This is the story of young men that have been trained to become ruthless killers. It's about surviving death. It's about taking part in a war many questioned before it even began. Evan Wright was the only reporter with First Recon, which operated well ahead of most other forces, usually behind enemy lines. They were among the first marines sent into the fight and one of the last units still engaged on the outskirts of Iraq, even after the city centre fell. Generation Kill is not just a combat chronicle but an inside look at how people fighting in war actually experience it. It is both an action narrative like Black Hawk Down and a detailed portrait of a generation at war along the lines of Band of Brothers. It is not a book you are going to forget in a hurry...
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Very good in very good dust jacket. „Unbestechlich, brillant geschrieben … bewegend. “ 3sat Kulturzeit. Zwei Monate lang begleitete der amerikanische Journalist Evan Wright-ausgerüstet mit Stift, Papier und einem Schutzanzug gegen chemische Waffen-eine Einheit des First Recon Battallion im Irakkrieg. Diese Elite-Einheit mit dem selbst gewählten Kampfnamen „Erstes Selbstmord-Kommando“ operierte vor den vordersten Frontlinien und fungierte als eine Art Köder, um Gegner aus ihren Verstecken zu locken. Vom ersten Tag des Krieges an war dieses Kommando auf sich gestellt, bewegte sich direkt in irakische Stellungen hinein und spürte „Hinterhalte“ auf. Wright war als „eingebetteter Journalist“ Teil der Truppe. Aus umittelbarer Nähe erzählt er die beunruhigende Geschichte junger Menschen, die zu eiskalten Killern ausgebildet und von ihrer Regierung in diesen „Krieg gegen den Terror“ geschickt wurden. „Wir sind nicht hierher gekommen, um dieses Land zu befreien, es ist jetzt genauso beschissen wie vorher“, so ihr desillusioniertes Fazit. Wright lässt nichts aus, beschönigt nichts-die Siege und die Niederlagen, die Euphorie und das Grauen, die physischen, moralischen und emotionalen Spannungen, unter denen die Soldaten leben-und widersteht damit den Erwartungen der Pentagon-Strategen, die die Journalisten zu regierungs-freundlichen Vermittlern der Frontereignisse instrumentalisieren wollten. Da sind Sergeant Colbert, der kühle Profi, der es schafft, diese schwierige Truppe zusammenzuhalten; Corporal Trombley, der Schüchterne, der seine Lust am Töten entdeckt; Lieutenant Fick, ein Harvard-Absolvent, der seinen Vorgesetzten herausfordert, aber seine Kameraden deckt; ein Marine, der gerade noch damit geprahlt hat, zwei Iraker „umgemäht“ zu haben, und zusammenbricht, als er erfährt, dass es zwei junge Hirten waren. Zwei Monate im Wüstensand, dreißig Tage ohne Dusche, kein Raum für Intimität. Die Männer schlafen in selbst gegrabenen Löchern, verrichten ihre Notdurft auf Befehl und kommen für Wochen nicht aus ihren Stiefeln und Uniformen heraus. Wright schreibt nicht nur das Porträt einer an der Invasion beteiligten Kampftruppe, sondern das Porträt einer ganzen Generation. Die 23 Männer, zum Teil Afghanistan-Veteranen, sind erst Anfang zwanzig, manche auch jünger, und sie gehören der ersten Generation amerikanischer Soldaten an, die mit Videospielen, Reality-TV und Internetpornografie groß geworden ist. Sie schießen jetzt auf lebende Ziele, so wie sie als Jugendliche virtuell geschossen haben; ihr „War Game“ findet jetzt im richtigen Leben statt. Sie putschen sich mit weichen Drogen auf, um ohne Schlaf durchhalten zu können. Das höchste Lob für einen Kameraden ist: „Du bist ein eiskalter Killer. “ Diese Jungen sind keine Idealisten, die im Krieg ihre Unschuld verlieren; sie sind „Krieger“, denen es gleichgültig ist, wofür sie kämpfen. Deutsche Erstausgabe. Evan Wright ist Reporter für das Musikmagazin Rolling Stone. Er schreibt außerdem für Time, The Los Angeles Weekly und die New York Times. Für seine Reportage aus dem Irak wurde er mit dem National Magazine Award for Excellence in Reporting 2004 ausgezeichnet. „Ich habe versucht, ein brutal ehrliches Buch über den Krieg zu schreiben. Die Wahrheit über den Krieg macht nicht viele glücklich. “ Evan Wright.
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