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[Michael Pitre] ☆ Fives and Twenty-Fives ☆ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Fives and Twenty-Fives I highly recommend it for all Coco Given To Me For An Honest ReviewThis book is about the Iraq war. It gives a voice of the Iraqi women. The author is a veteran of the Marine Corps. He uses his experience from what he saw and what happened while in Iraq to write this story. This gives you, the reader, a sense of realism and a bit of humor from a soldier's point of view. This book is a page turner. Once I began I could not put it down. I highly recommend it for all. Michael Pitre did a fantastic
| Title | : | Fives and Twenty-Fives |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.87 (959 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 162040754X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-29 |
| Language | : | English |
An Best Book of the Month, September 2014: Normally, working a road crew would be the ultimate mundane job. Next they sweep the twenty-five meters in every direction. In putting us right in the heat and the dust, inside the helmets and Kevlar vests that chafe the skin, Michael Pitre shows us that the battlefields of modern warfare are far more complex and bizarre than the American public might imagine. —Neal Thompson. When they stop to repair a pothole, they first scan the immediate five meters; a bomb detonated in that circle would obliterate them all. The story is told from three perspectives: the platoon leader, his medic, and their Iraqi translator, a fan of hip-hop and Huck Finn, all of them looking back on the catastrophe that shattered their world. Pitre is a nervy, funny writer, with an ear for dialogue and banter. And he’s not shy about commenting on Am
And there's Kateb, known to the Americans as Dodge, an Iraqi interpreter whose love of American culture-from hip-hop to the dog-eared copy of Huck Finn he carries-is matched only by his disdain for what Americans are doing to his country.Returning home, they exchange one set of decisions and repercussions for another, struggling to find a place in a world that no longer knows them. Doc Pleasant, the medic, joined for opportunity, but finds his pride undone as he watches friends die. A bomb inside twenty-five meters kills the dismounted scouts investigating the road ahea
I highly recommend it for all Coco Given To Me For An Honest ReviewThis book is about the Iraq war. It gives a voice of the Iraqi women. The author is a veteran of the Marine Corps. He uses his experience from what he saw and what happened while in Iraq to write this story. This gives you, the reader, a sense of realism and a bit of humor from a soldier's point of view. This book is a page turner. Once I began I could not put it down. I highly recommend it for all. Michael Pitre did a fantastic job in writing this story. I only wish I could give more than 5 stars.. Ray F. said Fives and Twenty-Fives is the best book I have read about the Iraq conflict. Fives and Twenty-Fives is the best book I have read about the Iraq conflict, and the only book that shows the voice of the Iraqi's (and women). The author is a Marine vet., and the book supposedly draws on his experience from the conflict, so the reader certainly gets a sense of realism and a soldier's humor. I would recommend this book to the average reader, not just readers of war fiction.. Great read! Very excited to receive the book on Great read! Very excited to receive the book on release date. The characters that Pitre introduces are compelling to follow through the novel. Very difficult to put down after I started reading it.
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