Kaboom Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War
by Gallagher, MattEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-04-12
Publisher(s): Grand Central Publishing
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Summary
Based on Captain Matt Gallagher's controversial and popular blog, which the U.S. Army shut down in June 2008, Kaboomis a sardonic, unnerving, one-of-a-kind Iraq war memoir. "At turns hilarious, maddening and terrifying," providing "raw and insightful snapshots of conflict" ( Washington Post), Kaboomresonates with stoical detachment from and timeless insight into a war that we are still trying to understand.
Author Biography
Matt Gallagher joined the U.S. Army in 2005 and received a commission in the armored cavalry. Following a fifteen-month deployment in Iraq, Captain Gallagher left the army in 2009. Originally from Reno, Nevada, he now lives in New York City.
Table of Contents
| Maps | p. ix |
| Intrologue | p. xi |
| The Red, the White, and the Emo: (or American Boy Escapes) Winter 2007-2008 | p. 1 |
| Embrace the Suck: (or Narrative of a Counterinsurgent) Spring 2008 | p. 57 |
| iWar: (or The Lost Summer) Summer 2008 | p. 123 |
| Across the River and Far Away: (or Redemption's Grunt) Autumn 2008 | p. 191 |
| Stepsons of Iraq: (or A Short-timer's Promenade) Winter 2008-2009 | p. 239 |
| Exit Strategy | p. 289 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 293 |
| Index | p. 295 |
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