Baghdad Express: A Gulf War Memoir - Hardcover

Turnipseed, Joel

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ISBN 10: 0873514505 ISBN 13: 9780873514507

Verlag: Borealis Books, 2003

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"An edgy, street-talking trip into the often inane realities of 'high-tech' contemporaty warfare. Turnipseed gives us an invaluable tale of war as it is, reckless and semi-nsane. Americans, in our perilous times, should be paying attention--reading this book, this vivid story about getting to the far side of triumph."

"A deeply felt account of an exile's passage across the back office landscape of modern war. Turnipseed is a lucid, passionate, and oddball observer with an extraordinary ear for vernacular speech and a deft and understated prose style. His book is the best dispatch so far from the Middle East desert battleground."

"This is a wonderfully timely book. Baghdad Express is well-written, very up to date, and in many ways an amazing tour de force."

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In early summer of 1990, Joel Turnipseed was homeless—kicked out of his college's philosophy program, dumped by his girlfriend. He had been AWOL from his Marine Corps Reserve unit for more than three months, spending his days hanging out in coffee shops reading Plato and Thoreau.

Then Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.

Turnipseed's unit was activated for service in Operation Desert Shield. By January of '91, he was in Saudi Arabia driving tractor-trailers for the Sixth Motor Transport Battalion—the legendary "Baghdad Express." The greatest logistical operation in Marine Corps history, the Baghdad Express hauled truckloads of explosives and ammunition across hundreds of miles of desert. But on the brink of war, Turnipseed's greatest struggles are still within. Armed with an M-16 and a seabag full of philosophy books, he is a wise-ass misfit, an ironic observer with a keen eye for vivid detail, a rebellious Marine alive to the moral ambiguity of his life and his situation.

Developed from Turnipseed's 1997 feature article for GQ Magazine, this innovative memoir—simultaneously terrifying and hilarious, equal parts Catch-22 and Catcher in the Rye—explores both the absurdities of war and the necessity of accepting our flawed world of shadows. With expansive humanity and profane grace, Turnipseed finds the real-world answers to his philosophical questions and reaches the hardest peace for any young man to achieve—with himself.

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• Verlag: Borealis Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0873514505
• ISBN 13: 9780873514507
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 210