Company C: The Real War in Iraq - Softcover

John Sack was the only reporter in the front lines throughout the Iraqi War and on the battlefield in the biggest tank battle in American history. This is his report.

As he did in an earlier book and on another war (M, 1967), Sack follows a unit of the U.S. Army from stateside to overseas deployment and into combat. He lets the men of C. Company/2nd. Battalion/34th Armor of the 1st Infantry Div. (Mech) tell their stories in their own words through transcriptions of taped conversations interspersed with some narrative. The result is a portrait of the Gulf War as seen from inside an Abrams tank. Sack, a former war correspondent and now an author and magazine contributor, shows that the character of war has not changed. For the reader, this account provides a contrast to works about the conduct of the Gulf War at higher levels. Because the story is told chronologically, Sack is constantly switching from one narrative thread to another, which may confuse the reader. There is no analysis or sense of the "big picture" here, simply a group of soldiers who go to war to do their job (for the most part) and go home. For both general and specialized military collections.?John F. Camenga, Tampa-Hillsborough P.L., Fla.
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