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War spoils you
This was a book I couldn’t read at night as I suspected I would have bad dreams. Not because it was gory or anything or with too much horror – I read those types of books all the time. But because this was about a real war – the Iraq war, which I knew too much about and had always been against, and it re-emphasised that it was always the Grunts of whichever side, that really felt the horrors. And I remember all too clearly the be-heading of US servicemen being filmed and distributed on TV – not that I could watch it but…
So this is a book to be read before you join the military. Before you think war is all glory and medals. If you are not going to be a Captain or above, you are going to be on the front line – and we all remember all too clearly what happens to the front line – it gets blown up by rockets, it goes across IEDs, it gets shot at by missiles and Uzis and…. all this in the most appalling living conditions you can imagine, for weeks on end.
Too realistic to be a story that you can say that you enjoyed reading, but yet a story that should be read.
