Evan Wright is a contributing editor on Rolling Stone magazine. He spent two months living with a platoon of Marine reconnaissance soldiers during the war in Iraq.
"Generation Kill" is about the young men sent to fight their nation's first open-ended war since Vietnam. Despite the flurry of media images to come of the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, you have never really met any of these people, who serve as front-line troops. For whatever reason, the media simply doesn't get them. As we all know, news accounts of the last two wars focused almost exclusively on battlefield imagery of high-tech weapons wreaking astounding destruction, comply with analysis from retired army grandees and other experts, punctuated by the odd heart-warming patriotic sound-bite. The troops themselves play a role in the media's presentation of recent wars rather like extras in "The Triumph of the Will". They are everywhere yet somehow invisible. When they speak you get the sense that what they are saying has been carefully scripted.Now "Generation Kill" tells the soldiers' story in their own words. The narrative focuses on a platoon of 23 marines, many of them veterans of Afghanistan, whose elite reconnaissance unit spearheaded the blitzkrieg on Iraq. This is the story of young men that have been trained to become ruthless killers. It's about surviving death. It's about taking part in a war many questioned before it even began. Evan Wright was the only reporter with First Recon, which operated well ahead of most other forces, usually behind enemy lines. They were among the first marines sent into the fight and one of the last units still engaged on the outskirts of Iraq, even after the city centre fell. "Generation Kill" is not just a combat chronicle but an inside look at how people fighting in war actually experience it. It is both an action narrative like "Black Hawk Down" and a detailed portrait of a generation at war along the lines of "Band of Brothers". It is not a book you are going to forget in a hurry.
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我更喜歡原書名《殺戮的一代》。 一開始,真的沒有把握把這本400來頁的書讀完,因為對自己沒有信心。讀下來,雖然不能說欲罷不能,倒也引人入勝。尤其一些對於戰爭的殘酷描寫,因為作者用瞭一種雲淡風輕的筆調,反倒讓人心生震撼。加上作者本身並不是一名軍人,相對於戰...
評分能夠有 Generation Kill 的隨軍記者視角和 One Bullet Away 的參戰軍官視角對比參考實在件太難得。Wright 的 GK 對底層官兵有著全麵細緻的塑造和毫無保留的褒貶,Fick 的 OBA 則努力不透露齣對上下級主觀的評判;Wright 的文字在記錄親眼所見與講解整體戰略之間做到瞭極好的平...
評分這本06年就齣瞭啊?一點宣傳都沒有。 第二集幾輛悍馬和吉普車強行穿越小鎮,簡直就是警匪片啊!匪徒開100槍也打不死警察,警察一槍就乾掉匪徒。這樣的車隊穿越狹窄街道,兩邊建築物內隻要有遊擊隊的裝備,就可以把它解決掉,居然隻有一人受輕傷。不知道書裏是怎麼寫的。 伊拉剋...
評分這本06年就齣瞭啊?一點宣傳都沒有。 第二集幾輛悍馬和吉普車強行穿越小鎮,簡直就是警匪片啊!匪徒開100槍也打不死警察,警察一槍就乾掉匪徒。這樣的車隊穿越狹窄街道,兩邊建築物內隻要有遊擊隊的裝備,就可以把它解決掉,居然隻有一人受輕傷。不知道書裏是怎麼寫的。 伊拉剋...
評分這本06年就齣瞭啊?一點宣傳都沒有。 第二集幾輛悍馬和吉普車強行穿越小鎮,簡直就是警匪片啊!匪徒開100槍也打不死警察,警察一槍就乾掉匪徒。這樣的車隊穿越狹窄街道,兩邊建築物內隻要有遊擊隊的裝備,就可以把它解決掉,居然隻有一人受輕傷。不知道書裏是怎麼寫的。 伊拉剋...
圖書標籤: 戰爭 紀實 殺戮一代 軍事 伊戰 伊拉剋戰爭 美國 小說
Nate 和 Reporter 的視角對比簡直萌死我瞭... 作為一本戰爭紀實,不僅對宏觀戰略和交戰細節都記錄詳盡,可以作為很實用的戰爭科普,更難得的是對個體官兵的具體塑造。看完相對於戰爭與殺戮的討論,更關心這些實實在在的士兵們參戰前後的思想和心理。【準確性質疑和其他視角:https://dou.bz/41iu7g】
評分死命拖著最終還是看完瞭,就是那種... 完全可以一口氣看完但是那樣就太可惜瞭於是一次隻允許自己看一點兒可開頭36%和最後24%還是一口氣看完瞭。epilogue裏fick的話還是感動得感動得不行,然後acknowledgement有一點想笑,噗
評分Nate 和 Reporter 的視角對比簡直萌死我瞭... 作為一本戰爭紀實,不僅對宏觀戰略和交戰細節都記錄詳盡,可以作為很實用的戰爭科普,更難得的是對個體官兵的具體塑造。看完相對於戰爭與殺戮的討論,更關心這些實實在在的士兵們參戰前後的思想和心理。【準確性質疑和其他視角:https://dou.bz/41iu7g】
評分如果大傢能在這戰爭記實裏能夠反思到生命,戰爭,起因,所得,所失,人性,任何一個角度,這本書都算成功
評分補充瞭很多背景信息和細節,擼完反而非常蘇Colbert,而不是Fick(等擼完OBA可能會打臉)。邊擼又吸瞭遍劇不禁感嘆Reporter和演員對人物的塑造真的很棒。翻到篇去年的近況報道,突然暴哭(
Generation Kill 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載