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Shade It Black: Death And After In Iraq (2011)

by Jessica Goodell(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1612000010 (ISBN13: 9781612000015)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Casemate Publishers and Book Distributors

review 1: Graphic and no holds barred...this young Marine tells what it was like to serve a tour in a mortuary affairs unit. Too many of us do not understand who our soldiers and marines are when they come home, because too many of us do not understand who they had to be while in theater. While I can't say I agree with some of her points of view, there is no denying the factual descriptions of what they did, and how they cared for their brothers and sisters in arms.
review 2: This is a memoir of a young female Marine who served with the Mortuary Affairs unit in Iraq. The stories she tells (in Iraq and after she returns home) are of course horrifying and raw. I hesitate to critique her writing, but the book as a whole might have benefited from some tighter editing. Her st... moreories are certainly worth reading, and she shines a light on a particularly gruesome sort of darkness. We need to hear more of these stories, and I'm pretty sure the veterans need to tell them. less

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