This Is Our War A Soldiers' Portfolio

Name: This Is Our War A Soldiers' Portfolio
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ISBN: 9781579653095

ISBN-10: 157965309X

ISBN-13: 9781579653095

Edition: 2006

Authors: Devin Friedman, GQ Magazine Editors, Wesley Clark

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At three o'clock in the morning, in a mess hall in Iraq, a soldier from the Florida National Guard took a little plastic device from a lanyard around his neck and plugged it into GQ journalist Devin Friedman's computer. It was a flash drive containing at least a hundred pictures-of his battalion in convoy through the desert, of his sister back in Florida, of every man his unit had killed. At that moment, it became clear to Friedman that Operation Iraqi Freedom was our first digital war. Not because of all the hardware you see on TV-night-vision goggles and Tomahawk missiles and Nic Robertson's videophone-but because of the simple, inexpensive digital camera, a part of daily life for the…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Artisan
Publication date: 3/19/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 9.00" wide x 11.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.080
Language: English

Devin Friedman is the senior writer at GQ. He has been nominated for a National Magazine Award, and his work has appeared in The Best American Travel Writing and The Best American Crime Writing, as well as in Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and others. This Is Our War is his first book.