The Deserter's Tale; The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away From the War in Iraq
Key, Joshua (as told to Lawrence Hill)
Language: English
Published by House of Anansi Press, Toronto, 2007
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, CanadaBISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB
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8vo. Negligible shelfwear, appears unread; near fine in near fine dustjacket.
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- Title
- The Deserter's Tale; The Story of an Ordinary Soldier Who Walked Away From the War in Iraq
- Author
- Key, Joshua (as told to Lawrence Hill)
- Publisher
- House of Anansi Press, Toronto
- Publication year
- 2007
- Dust jacket
- dj
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0887842089
- ISBN 13
- 9780887842085
- Seller catalogs
- Biography
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Review
"The American Army is having a lot of trouble attracting new recruits, in part because of the war in Iraq--its horrors, the lies, and the sixteen hundred Gls who are dead. Joshua Key enlisted. But after eight months in Ramadi and Fallujah, taking advantage of home leave, he deserted. . . . He left behind the hardship of war, the blood, the lies. Like thousands of others."
"If anybody invaded America and did to us what we did to the Iraqi people, I'd be right up there with the rebels and insurgents, trying to blow up the occupiers. I would hole up in my hometown in Oklahoma and rig mines in trees (they kill more people when they go off overhead) and set them to explode when tanks passed below. I'd lob all the mortars and rocket-propelled grenades that I could get my hands on. No doubt about it, if somebody ripped apart my home and my family in the United States, I'd be a force to be reckoned with, and I'd keep giving the occupiers hell until I was dead and gone, twice over."
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BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB
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