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Author : Anthony Swofford
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2008-12-09
Jarhead written by Anthony Swofford and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A harrowing yet inspiring portrait of a tormented consciousness struggling for reconciliation and peace, JARHEAD is authentic, revelatory and brilliantly crafted. Anthony Swofford's grandfather fought in WWII; his father fought in Vietnam; and he - a directionless, testosterone-battered teenager - became a scout/sniper in the marines and fought in the Gulf War. His account of that time is also part of a lineage - after Wilfred Owen, Norman Mailer, Michael Herr and Tim O'Brien, it brings the raw and searing tradition of soldiers' stories up to date.
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Author : Anthony Swofford
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2005-11-11
Jarhead written by Anthony Swofford and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Anthony Swofford's Jarhead is the first Gulf War memoir by a frontline infantry marine, and it is a searing, unforgettable narrative. When the marines -- or "jarheads," as they call themselves -- were sent in 1990 to Saudi Arabia to fight the Iraqis, Swofford was there, with a hundred-pound pack on his shoulders and a sniper's rifle in his hands. It was one misery upon another. He lived in sand for six months, his girlfriend back home betrayed him for a scrawny hotel clerk, he was punished by boredom and fear, he considered suicide, he pulled a gun on one of his fellow marines, and he was shot at by both Iraqis and Americans. At the end of the war, Swofford hiked for miles through a landscape of incinerated Iraqi soldiers and later was nearly killed in a booby-trapped Iraqi bunker. Swofford weaves this experience of war with vivid accounts of boot camp (which included physical abuse by his drill instructor), reflections on the mythos of the marines, and remembrances of battles with lovers and family. As engagement with the Iraqis draws closer, he is forced to consider what it is to be an American, a soldier, a son of a soldier, and a man. Unlike the real-time print and television coverage of the Gulf War, which was highly scripted by the Pentagon, Swofford's account subverts the conventional wisdom that U.S. military interventions are now merely surgical insertions of superior forces that result in few American casualties. Jarhead insists we remember the Americans who are in fact wounded or killed, the fields of smoking enemy corpses left behind, and the continuing difficulty that American soldiers have reentering civilian life. A harrowing yet inspiring portrait of a tormented consciousness struggling for inner peace, Jarhead will elbow for room on that short shelf of American war classics that includes Philip Caputo's A Rumor of War and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, and be admired not only for the raw beauty of its prose but also for the depth of its pained heart.
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Author : Anthony Swofford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Jarhead written by Anthony Swofford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Persian Gulf War, 1991 categories.
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Author : Anthony Swofford
language : en
Publisher: Scribner
Release Date : 2005-11-11
Jarhead written by Anthony Swofford and has been published by Scribner this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-11-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In his New York Times bestselling chronicle of military life, Anthony Swofford weaves his experiences in war with vivid accounts of boot camp, reflections on the marines, and remembrances of battles with lovers and family. When the U.S. Marines—or “jarheads”—were sent to Saudi Arabia in 1990 for the Gulf War, Anthony Swofford was there. He lived in sand for six months; he was punished by boredom and fear; he considered suicide, pulled a gun on a fellow marine, and was targeted by both enemy and friendly fire. As engagement with the Iraqis drew near, he was forced to consider what it means to be an American, a soldier, a son of a soldier, and a man.
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Author : William Broyles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 200?
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Women In Anthony Swofford S Jarhead A Marine S Chronicle Of The Gulf War And Other Battles
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Author : Lisa-Andrea Glatz
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2006-02-02
Women In Anthony Swofford S Jarhead A Marine S Chronicle Of The Gulf War And Other Battles written by Lisa-Andrea Glatz and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, University of Regensburg, course: Proseminar, language: English, abstract: These are the two types into which women can be classificated in the eyes of a Marine. This attitude towards women might be disguisting in the eyes of the reader of Anthony Swofford ́s war novel Jarhead: a Marine ́s chronicle of the Gulf War and other battles (2003) but it seems as if it is normal in the United States Marine Corps, (US MC), to which the author belonged during the first Gulf War. Having grown up in Tachikawa, Japan and having served a ordinary High-School education it is interesting to find out, where this attitude came from and if it already existed in the mind of the author.
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Author : Anthony Genualdi
language : en
Publisher: Booklocker.com
Release Date : 2016-08-01
Jarhead Tanker written by Anthony Genualdi and has been published by Booklocker.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-01 with Fiction categories.
After being in the reserve, U.S. Marine officer John Callahan, an armor crew veteran of WWII, is sent to the war in Korea...
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Author : Anthony Swofford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Jarhead written by Anthony Swofford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Persian Gulf War, 1991 categories.
"Swofford weaves this experience of war with vivid accounts of boot camp (which included physical abuse by his drill instructor), reflections on the mythos of the marines, and remembrances of battles with lovers and family. As engagement with the Iraqis draws closer, he is forced to consider what it is to be an American, a soldier, a son of a soldier, and a man." "Unlike the real-time print and television coverage of the Gulf War, which was highly scripted by the Pentagon, Swofford's account subverts the conventional wisdom that U.S. military interventions are now merely surgical insertions of superior forces that result in few American casualties. Jarhead insists we remember the Americans who are in fact wounded or killed, the fields of smoking enemy corpses left behind, and the continuing difficulty that American soldiers have reentering civilian life."--BOOK JACKET.
Jarhead Jerry
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Author : Gerald F Schuldt
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2015-10-23
Jarhead Jerry written by Gerald F Schuldt and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Jarhead Jerry describes the life of a boy who chose to become a United States Marine. All the emotion and pain, joys and achievements gives meaning to his life and relates to something common in all of us. From puppy love to combat and then the inequities he had to endure. At the end, the consequences of his actions that are without escape. Jarhead Jerry is a gripping life story of Gerald Schuldt, who above all considered himself a United States Marine.
A Jarhead S Journey
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Author : Jim Lowe
language : en
Publisher: America Star Books
Release Date : 2014-01
A Jarhead S Journey written by Jim Lowe and has been published by America Star Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01 with History categories.
A Jarhead's Journey takes the reader through Marine Corps officers' boot camp in Quantico, Virginia, the Fleet Marine Force where a young lieutenant led the first platoon off the USS Guadalcanal during the Panama riots of 1964, the jungles and rice paddies of Vietnam, and back to Quantico as an instructor before returning to civilian life. An epilogue chapter relates the treatment of Vietnam veterans after honorably discharged from military service and frustrations experienced in dealing with the Department of Veterans Affairs today. The source documents and photographs used were discovered when a plastic container stored in their attic for four decades was retrieved for Sandy, his bride of five decades. In there was a shoebox containing every letter 1st Lt. Jim Lowe had written to his young bride during his tour as an advisor in Vietnam, in the original envelopes, carefully arranged and sequentially numbered in the exact chronological order received.