Or, the True Story of Two Friends Who Gave Up Their Valuable Franchise Selling "Yankees Suck" T-shirts at Fenway to Find Meaning and Adventure in Iraq
by Jeff Neumann, Donovan Webster, Ray LeMoine
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Published in USA
Aug 2006
336 pages
Genre: History, Science & Current Affairs
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The true story of two young American men who came to Baghdad without a plan, were recruited into an occupation that knew the feeling, and witnessed enough corruption, confusion, and brutality to fill the pages of a very good book.
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"Not entirely without merit, the book does capture a sense of the madness of postwar Iraq." - PW.
"Some of the war-zone madness is reminiscent of Catch-22; some of the sorrow and tragedy is too. Or, "How Bill and Ted's Self-Indulgent Adventure Became William and Theodore's Moving Memoir." - Kirkus.
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