Generation Kill by Evan Wright, 2009

Book behind HBO's acclaimed TV series in seven parts. It was the first generation of young Americans in open war since the Vietnam War. A motley collection of characters, Buddhists and new age devotees, raised on Oprah Winfrey, internet porn and video games. Brave, opinionated, cocky and seriously tone-deaf to the physical and psychological horror that lay before them. Generation Kill is the shocking, honest and at times funny depiction of the ”first self-mod battalion”, the spearhead in the depiction of the ”first self-mod battalion”, the spearhead in the exchange against Saddam Hussein's rule in Iraq. A true and all too rarely described picture of the randomness and cruelty of warfare. They were called a generation without heroes. Now they were expected to be heroes themselves. ”A raw story of war and an ongoing depiction of a bunch of soldiers in the chewing gum who try to come to terms with themselves.” Time. ISBN: 496 60 90 0042 4X