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- Growing Up in the Forever War
Af: Jerad W. Alexander Engelsk Paperback

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- Growing Up in the Forever War
Af: Jerad W. Alexander Engelsk Paperback
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“A beautiful and powerfully affecting portrait of a boyhood in a military family.” —Phil Klay, author of Missionaries and the National Book Award-winning Redeployment
 
As a child, Jerad Alexander lay in bed listening to the fighter jets take off outside his window and was desperate to be airborne. As a teenager at an American base in Japan, he immersed himself in war games, war movies, and pulpy novels about Vietnam. Obsessed with all things military, he grew up playing with real guns, joined the Civil Air Patrol for the uniform, and dreamed of enlisting and playing his part in the Great American War Story. Once in Iraq as a U.S. Marine, however, he came to realize he was fighting a lost cause, enmeshed in the ongoing War on Terror that was really just a fruitless display of American might. The myths of war, the stories of violence and masculinity and heroism, the legacy of his family—everything Alexander had planned his life around—was a mirage.

Alternating scenes from childhood with skirmishes in the Iraqi desert, this original, searing, and propulsive memoir introduces a powerful new voice in the literature of war. Jerad W. Alexander—not some elite warrior, but a simple volunteer—delivers a passionate and timely reckoning with the troubled and cyclical truths of the American war machine.
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“A beautiful and powerfully affecting portrait of a boyhood in a military family.” —Phil Klay, author of Missionaries and the National Book Award-winning Redeployment
 
As a child, Jerad Alexander lay in bed listening to the fighter jets take off outside his window and was desperate to be airborne. As a teenager at an American base in Japan, he immersed himself in war games, war movies, and pulpy novels about Vietnam. Obsessed with all things military, he grew up playing with real guns, joined the Civil Air Patrol for the uniform, and dreamed of enlisting and playing his part in the Great American War Story. Once in Iraq as a U.S. Marine, however, he came to realize he was fighting a lost cause, enmeshed in the ongoing War on Terror that was really just a fruitless display of American might. The myths of war, the stories of violence and masculinity and heroism, the legacy of his family—everything Alexander had planned his life around—was a mirage.

Alternating scenes from childhood with skirmishes in the Iraqi desert, this original, searing, and propulsive memoir introduces a powerful new voice in the literature of war. Jerad W. Alexander—not some elite warrior, but a simple volunteer—delivers a passionate and timely reckoning with the troubled and cyclical truths of the American war machine.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 320
ISBN-13: 9781643753256
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1643753258
Kategori: United States of America, USA
Udg. Dato: 8 nov 2022
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 138mm
Højde: 208mm
Forlag: Workman Publishing
Oplagsdato: 8 nov 2022
Forfatter(e): Jerad W. Alexander
Forfatter(e) Jerad W. Alexander

Kategori United States of America, USA

ISBN-13 9781643753256

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 320

Udgave

Længde 20mm

Bredde 138mm

Højde 208mm

Udg. Dato 8 nov 2022

Oplagsdato 8 nov 2022

Forlag Workman Publishing