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Overview
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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