Kaboom

Name: Kaboom
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ISBN: 9780552164009

Matt Gallagher

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Corgi Books
15 June 2012

True war & combat stories

The book the US Army tried to ban...

Iraq, late 2007. Lieutenant Matt Gallagher arrives just as US policy shifts from lethal operations to counter-insurgency. He encounters a world where nothing is as it seems. Friends are enemies, reconciliation is war, roads are bombs and silence is deadly. Nothing left to do except 'embrace the suck'...

...and blog about it. Matt Gallagher's response was to write an on-line journal (called Kaboom) which quickly went viral. Read by thousands of soldiers who recognised its unflinchingly honest portrayal of the real war, as well as high-ranking Pentagon officials and interested parties around the world, Kaboom was shut down by the US Army in June 2008. Now you can read the whole story, based on that brilliant, acerbic, banned blog. Kaboom paints a shockingly original and uncompromising portrait of a savage war the world is still struggling to understand.

By: Matt Gallagher
Imprint: Corgi Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 315g
ISBN: 9780552164009
ISBN 10: 0552164003
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 15 June 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Matt Gallagher joined the US Army in 2005 and received a commission in the armoured cavalry. Following a 15-month deployment in Iraq, Gallagher left the army in 2009. He now lives in New York City.

Reviews for Kaboom

At turns hilarious, maddening and terrifying Washington Post Brutally honest Wired.com As funny as it is harrowing Entertainment Weekly [Kaboom is] surely the Jarhead of the second Gulf war -- Patrick Hennessey, Author Of The Junior Officers' Reading Club Insightful, colorful, and at times irreverent... An excellent snapshot of a junior officer embroiled in a counterinsurgency fight... An exceptionally engaging read Military Review 20110304

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