Anthony Swofford

Broschiertes Buch

Jarhead

A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles

Beschreibung

When the Marines were sent to Saudi Arabia for Operation Desert Storm, Anthony Swofford was there, with a hundred-pound pack on his shoulders and a sniper's rifle in his hands. This is his scorching memoir of life on and off the battlefield.

Autor

Anthony Swofford served in a U.S. Marine Corps Surveillance and Target Acquisition/Scout-Sniper platoon during the Gulf War. After the war, he was educated at American River College; the University of California, Davis; and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has taught at the University of Iowa and Lewis and Clark College. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times, Harper's, Men's Journal, The Iowa Review, and other publications. A Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient, he lives in New York.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scribner Book Company
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9780743244916
• ISBN-10: 0743244915
• Artikelnr.: 21292194