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Combat and Other Shenanigans: Tales of the Absurd from a Deployment to Iraq
Piers Platt
ASIN: B00INKEXNO
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 181

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWar is hell…but sometimes it’s also funny as hell.Combat and Other Shenanigans is Lieutenant Piers Platt’s firsthand account of his year as a cavalry platoon leader in Iraq. Wry, action-packed, and poignant, Combat and Other Shenanigans is the absurd-but-true story of the antics the world’s finest soldiers get up to when no one high-ranking is watching.Interview with the AuthorQ - What makes Combat and Other Shenanigans special?A - There are a ton of great war memoirs out there today, and many cover the Global War on Terror / Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. I don’t want to detract from any of those works, as they all tell an important aspect of the experience of being deployed. But my experience was a lot less action-packed and heroic, and a lot more about doing our best to get the job done, and keep ourselves from going stir-crazy in the process. We pulled some ...
Amazon Rating:
4.5 stars from 618 ratings