I’m tempering my short fiction reviews with something a little harder – books about war. I’ll review five in all, starting with Jarhead, Anthony Swofford’s Gulf War memoir.
Jarhead
Anthony SwoffordScribner 2004, Paperback, 260 pages, £7.99
As a lance corporal in a US Marine Corps scout/sniper platoon, Swofford was trained to kill, but didn’t ever get the chance. His memoir, [...]