Love My Rifle More Than You Young and Female in the Us Army

Name: Love My Rifle More Than You Young and Female in the Us Army
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ISBN: 9780393329223

ISBN-10: 0393329224

ISBN-13: 9780393329223

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Authors: Kayla Williams, Michael Staub

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"Brave, honest, and necessary."Nancy Pearl, NPR Seattle Kayla Williams is one of the 15 percent of the U.S. Army that is female, and she is a great storyteller. With a voice that is "funny, frank and full of gritty details" (New York Daily News), she tells of enlisting under Clinton; of learning Arabic; of the sense of duty that fractured her relationships; of being surrounded by bravery and bigotry, sexism and fear; of seeing 9/11 on Al-Jazeera; and of knowing she would be going to war. With a passion that makes her memoir "nearly impossible to put down" (Buffalo News) Williams shares the powerful gamut of her experiences in Iraq, from caring for a wounded civilian to aiming a rifle at a…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.20" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Kayla Williams, a former Arabic linguist in the U.S. Army, is the author of Love My Rifle More than You and Plenty of Time When We Get Home. She lives with her husband Brian and their two children in Virginia.



Prologue


Queen for a Year


Who I Was


Enlisted


"Are You Going to War?"


FTA


How to Prepare for Deployment to Iraq


Full Battle Rattle


In-Country


At the Monastery


The Explosion


North


Mountain Time


Free Market


Losing It


Unceremonious


Locked and Loaded


Crossing a Line


Reading Atlas Shrugged in Mosul


Situation Normal


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Glossary of Military Terms