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Informationen zum Autor Alex Vernon is assistant professor of English and chair of American Studies at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. He is coauthor of The Eyes of Orion: Five Tank Lieutenants in the Persian Gulf War (The Kent State University Press, 1999), editor of Arms and the Self: War, the Military and Autobiographical Writing (The Kent State University State University Press, 2005), and author of Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien (2004). Klappentext Most succinctly bred explores war by exploring around war, by operating in the margins. Not merely a collection of essays, this book has a trajectory, and the chapters, appearing in rough chronological order, loop in and out of one another. It is not a narrow autobiography that attempts to account for the writer's life; it uses that life to illuminate the lives of its readers, to tell us about the time and place in which we find ourselves. Zusammenfassung Presents an ""essayistic"" memoir on being a soldier. The author records his ongoing relationship with war and soldiering! from growing up in late Cold War 1980s middle America to attending West Point! going to and returning from the first Gulf War! and watching! as a writer and academic! the coming of the second Iraq war.
