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2007-05-14 Home Front: Culture Wars

Ex-Soldier's Iraq Memoir Wins Blog Prize

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Posted by Steve White 2007-05-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 U.S. blogging queen Arianna Huffington, a Blooker judge, called Buzzell's book "an unfiltered, often ferocious expression of his boots-on-the-ground view of the Iraq war."

Steve left that part out, so as not to unfairly prejudice Rantburg readers by Huffenpuff's opinion.

Posted by Bobby 2007-05-14 05:52|| 2007-05-14 05:52|| Front Page Top

#2 It's a pretty decent book. Grunt's-eye view of the army at war. Doesn't 'glorify', but not all that condemning either. We see similar books from every war, though seldom are they published so quickly.
That said, I think one would be better off reading a full compilation of Michael Yon's dispatches, supplemented by Michael Totten's (and tipping them appropriately.)

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-05-14 08:38|| 2007-05-14 08:38|| Front Page Top

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