My War: Killing Time in Iraq (Signed First Edition)

Colby Buzzell

ISBN 10: 0399153276 / ISBN 13: 9780399153273

Published by Putnam, New York, 2005

About this Item

New York: Crown [2005]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. New/New. A pristine unread copy. (Without marks or bruises or smells or any other defect.) SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page (name only). Comes with archival-quality mylar cover dust jacket. Purchased new and never opened except for author signing. Shipped in well padded box. Smoke-free shop. You cannot find a better copy. My War recounts the author's November 2003 January 2005 deployment of post-invasion Iraq in the U.S. Army. The book won the $10,000 Lulu Blooker Prize, an annual award given for "blooks" books based on blogs or other Web sites.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: My War: Killing Time in Iraq (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Putnam, New York
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0399153276
• ISBN 13: 9780399153273
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Iraq War

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Synopsis

Recounts the personal experiences of a U.S. Army soldier who served in Iraq as a member of the controversial Stryker Brigade Combat Team, a tour of duty during which he engaged in dangerous firefights and raids and kept an online Web log describing his war experiences. 75,000 first printing.

About the Author

Before enlisting in the U.S. Army at age twenty-six, Colby Buzzell lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. He served over two years, including a year in Iraq.

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COLBY BUZZELL is the author of My War: Killing Time in Iraq, Lost In America: A Dead End Journey, and Thank You For Being Expendable & Other Experiences. Buzzell served as an infantryman in the United States Army during the Iraq War. Assigned to a Stryker Brigade Combat Team in 2003, Buzzell blogged from the front lines of Iraq as a replacement for his habitual journaling back in the states. In 2004 Buzzell was profiled in Esquire's "Best and Brightest" issue. In 2007, Buzzell received the Lulu Blooker Prize for My War: Killing Time in Iraq. The Washington Post in that same year referred to his article "Digging a Hole All the Way to America" as "A Tour de Force Travelogue," and his article "Down & Out In Fresno and San Francisco" was selected for The Best American Travel Writing 2010. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Vice, The New York Daily News, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Penthouse, Time, and on This American Life. Buzzell holds a B.A. from West Virginia University and a MFA in Creative Writing at UC Riverside Palm Desert. He currently lives in San Francisco, California.