Lloyd Dalton &
Generation Kill by Evan Wright

I think this is a hard book to rate. I wanted to read this as the show adaption is one of my favourite series and it was really impressive to see how much the show stuck with the actual accounts of this book. On one hand, it’s first accounts of a journalist writing his experience with the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion of the United States Marine Corps, during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but on the other hand, it’s really hard not get angry at the content of this memoir and how childish marines can be. • It instilled my hate for war further and showed how racist and homophobic marines are. I sometimes had to put the book down just so I could vent out my frustrations because I was livid at how dense the marines could be. There was only so many slurs I could take before I was having to tap out and cool off. • my mind was boggled that they weren’t even trained for this type of invasion, Person didn’t even have training or a license to drive his platoons vehicle, they weren’t trained to be sitting in a vehicle for 15+ hours a day. • As I read on further, the difference of the opinions, how things slowly started to change for the marines and how war really affected them by the end was quite surprising. It also really shocked me at how idiotic and stupid higher ups could be, especially when their men’s lives are on the line. The truthfulness, the intense details and dedication Wright took to write this is the reason I’m giving this four stars.