No Joy: A Recon Marine's Tales of (Self) Destruction - Softcover

Rose, David

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9781945572494: No Joy: A Recon Marine's Tales of (Self) Destruction

Synopsis


*Disclaimer* This is not a book on PTSD, at all. This book is about, what some may call, the alternative explanation.


Picked up by a larger publisher--the retitled, second, and final edition of the cult hit, Spent Shell Casings.

Created as a counterweight for all the politicized and ghost-written books about the Global War on Terror, No Joy is the transgressive memoir to set the record straight! Dark. Hilarious. Disturbingly Honest--this collection of short stories from your average frustrated American teen turned one of its most elite brand of warriors, No Joy rips the veneer off the thank-you-for-your-service Boy Scout façade.

Centered on the 2004 Battle of Fallujah, this mosaic of meditation and madness asks the necessary question: what really draws modern young men to war?

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About the Author

David Rose was born and raised in Orlando, Florida. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 2002 to 2006, mostly as a Reconnaissance Man in 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion; under which deploying to Iraq in 2004. This era encompassed the first democratic elections held in Iraq and the retaking of Fallujah. All this in the most violent battle space of the war, the Al Anbar Province―the Triangle of Death.

He holds a Bachelor of Art in Business Administration from American Military University as well as a Master of Science in Philosophy of the Social Sciences from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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