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The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell|John Crawford
The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell : An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq
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In the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches, a National Guardsman's account of the war in Iraq. John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition, willingly exchanging one weekend a month and two weeks a year for a free education. But in Autumn 2002, one semester short of graduating and newly married--in fact, on his honeymoon--he was called to active duty and sent to the front lines in Iraq.

Crawford and his unit spent months upon months patrolling the streets of Baghdad, occupying a hostile city. During the breaks between patrols, Crawford began recording what he and his fellow soldiers witnessed and experienced. Those stories became The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell--a haunting and powerful, compellingly honest book that imparts the on-the-ground reality of waging the war in Iraq, and marks as the introduction of a mighty literary voice forged in the most intense of circumstances.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781594482014
  • ISBN-10: 1594482012
  • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: April 2006
  • Dimensions: 8.02 x 5.16 x 0.63 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.43 pounds
  • Page Count: 240
  • Reading Level: Ages 18-UP

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