
The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell
An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq
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Narrated by:
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Patrick Lawlor
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By:
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John Crawford
John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition; it had seemed a small sacrifice to give up one weekend a month and two weeks a year in exchange for a free education. But one semester short of graduating, and newly married, he was called to active duty, to serve in Kuwait, then on the front lines of the invasion of Iraq, and ultimately in Baghdad. While serving in Iraq, Crawford began writing short nonfiction stories, his account of what he and his fellow soldiers experienced in the war. At the urging of a journalist embedded with his unit, he began sending his pieces out of the country via an anonymous Internet e-mail account.
In a voice at once raw and immediate, Crawford's work vividly chronicles the daily life of a young soldier in Iraq: the excitement, the horror, the anger, the tedium, the fear, the camaraderie. Altogether, the stories slowly uncover something more: the transformation of a group of young college students, innocents, into something entirely different.
©2005 John Crawford (P)2005 Tantor Media, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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"Crawford's writing pulses with urgency, and, gloriously, his story of being an American soldier in Iraq is shattering and relentless." (David Amsden, author of Important Things That Don't Matter)
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Brutal account of the Iraq War.
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OIF veteran relatable
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Truthful and well done
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Very real first person story!
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INFANTRY IN IRAQ
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