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A memoir of the Gulf War by a front-line infantry marine recounts his struggles with the conflict on the front lines, his battles with fear and suicide, his brushes with death, and his identity as a soldier and an American.

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Jarhead Anthony Swofford, A memoir of the Gulf War by a front-line infantry marine recounts his struggles with the conflict on the front lines, his battles.

When the marines - or "jarheads," as they call themselves - were sent in to Saudi Arabia to fight the Iraqis, Swofford was there, with a hundred-pound.

A memoir of the Gulf War by a front-line infantry marine recounts his struggles with the conflict on the front lines, his battles with fear and suicide.

Jarhead Anthony Swofford, Anthony Swofford's Jarhead is the first Gulf War memoir by a frontline infantry marine, and it is a.

Anthony Swofford's Jarhead is the first Gulf War memoir by a frontline infantry marine, and it is a searing, unforgettable narrative. When the marines -- or "jarheads," as they call themselves --

were sent in 1990 to Saudi Arabia to fight the Iraqis, Swofford was there, with a hundred-pound pack on his shoulders and a sniper's rifle in his hands.

It was one misery upon another. He lived in sand for six months, his girlfriend back home betrayed him for a scrawny hotel clerk, he was punished by boredom and fear, he considered suicide, he pulled a gun on one of his fellow marines, and he was shot at by both Iraqis and Americans.

At the end of the war, Swofford hiked for miles through a landscape of incinerated Iraqi soldiers and later was nearly killed in