My War:
Killing Time in Iraq,
by Colby Buzzell
One Bullet Away:
The Making of a Marine Officer,
by Nathaniel Fick
Just Another Soldier:
A Year on the Ground in Iraq,
by Jason Christopher Hartley
Love My Rifle More than You:
Young and Female in the US Army,
by Kayla Williams with Michael E Staub
No True Glory:
A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah
by Bing West
Ambush Alley:
The Most Extraordinary Battle of the Iraq War
by Tim Pritchard
By Richard Allen Greene
BBC News website
The war in Iraq may be far from over, but it has already produced a small crop of books by soldiers who fought in it (click on the jacket scans, above).
These books are not like Anthony Swofford's acclaimed marine memoir Jarhead, a searing but elegiac account of the first Gulf War written a decade after the events it describes. They are raw and immediate, based on blogs or letters home, and at their best they hurl the reader directly into experiences neither Hollywood nor 24-hour news channels can replicate.
While the authors, all Americans, describe similar events - endless waiting to go into action, sand in the eyes, nose and mouth, the chaos and confusion of actual combat - each has a unique perspective and voice.
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