bBased on Evan Wright's National Magazine Award-winning story in iRolling Stonei, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBOR original mini-series. pbWithin hours of 911, America's war on terrorism fell to those like the twenty-three Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new pop-culture breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears--soldiers raised on hip hop, video games and iThe Real Worldi. Cocky, brave, headstrong, wary and mostly unprepared for the physical, emotional and moral horrors ahead, the First Suicide Battalion would spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq, and fight against the hardest resistance Saddam had to offer. pHailed as one of the best books to come out of the Iraq wariFinancial Timesi, iGeneration Killi is the funny, frightening, and profane firsthand account of these remarkable men, of the personal toll of victory, and of the randomne