Does My Suicide Vest Make Me Look Fat?: A Soldier's Year in Iraq by John Ready
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Ready was held a major's rank in the Army's Civil Affairs organization and so has a unique insight on post-Saddam Iraq. Much of it was spent spending Saddam's ill-gotten riches on hearts-and-finds projects around Baghdad International Airport. Ready's recollections come in short vignettes rich in wit, cynicism, and harsh reality. I don't know why he feels a need to go on for paragraphs in italics, but overall this is a good, modern military memoir.
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