One Bullet Away

I've been reading this over the weekend, having finished Generation Kill last week. This is an auto biographical account of a career in the US Marine Corps, which wouldn't have been of particular interest were it not for the fact that the author played a pivotal role in the events described in Generation Kill. I'm not that keen on reading about recent conflicts in Iraq or Afghanistan, as many of the books that have emerged from both conflicts lean toward the sensationalist, elite special forces vicarious end of the literary spectrum. This, however, is different and written by someone with a background in history and the classics, which lifts it above the run of the mill. A really well written and reflective account.