- Hardcover: 237 pages
- Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press (28 Jan 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0871139545
- ISBN-13: 978-0871139542
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,331,945 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A book I never thought I would enjoy reading with it being about the war in Iraq but, it was great, I didn't want to put the book down. Joshua Key was a brave and remarkable man. Brilliant!!!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A Real Eye Opener From Someone Who Saw It Happening - this young soldier's account of the US military's actions in Iraq, and his realisation that he was not "one of the good guys" is a fantastic and gripping read. From naive idealism to the brutal reality of war, this man's transformation is an amazing journey - what is so astonishing is that there are not more soldiers with his bravery and decency coming forward as he has. If you want to know what "is really going on" then this is a must read!!
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20 of 28 people found the following review helpful
This book is a fraud, a scam, a hoax. The author is no soldier and never was.
28 Jan 2009
Format:Paperback
The author of this great steaming pile of fabrication, if he ever wore a uniform, plainly never graduated from basic, and certainly never saw a combat theater. Preposterous inaccuracies drip from every page- the closest this clown ever got to a battlefield was on his X-Box. A "gunnery sergeant" in the Army? An "M-16 grenade launcher?" Setting off a fuel-tank explosion by shooting the ground leakage? This bozo has watched too many Die Hard flicks.
Of course the anti-war people are lapping it up, because it 'confirms' every anti-military hate stereotype they hold. But it's all crap. Just another product of the Great Leftist Lie Machine.
Of course the anti-war people are lapping it up, because it 'confirms' every anti-military hate stereotype they hold. But it's all crap. Just another product of the Great Leftist Lie Machine.
17 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Lies
28 Jan 2009
Format:Hardcover
I've been in the military for 20 years and what the author describes has no relation to anything I've ever witnessed or heard. In fact, take what he says and turn it around 180 degrees and you'd have more truth. What he says about the JAG briefings...out and out fallacies. The JAG briefings I've received make it very clear that we follow the Geneva Convention or we will be prosecuted and locked away.
What a sack of lying sh..!
What a sack of lying sh..!
21 of 30 people found the following review helpful
The Reader Deserts the Deserter
17 Sep 2007
Format:Hardcover
I bought this book because I have a son in the armed forces who has already been to Afghanastan and is scheduled to go to Iraq in Dec '07. I wanted to get a feel for what my son might go through by seeing Iraq through another soldiers eyes. This soldier purports himself to be a true American, would die for his country, and so on. What he did after 5 and a half months was walk away from his Company, and his Country and not only became a war criminal, but turned his wife and four children into criminals. Nowhere in the book could I find one resonable excuse for what he did. Military life is hard, service in Iraq in the early days was often shameful, but he had other avenues, and he should have explored those before going to Canada. So far Canada has turned him down for political aslyium, and I hope his appeal is turned down as well. Keys need to come back and face those he left behind. I'm also sorry that the money I spent on the book is helping to support him even a little.
Oh, I did talk to my son about the concerns I had in the book, he told me that someone was lying. So, if you do go ahead and read this book, keep that in mind.
Other "facts" I found disturbing is how he was able to use his own name and not once, but twice, file and receive a tax return. The "facts" in the book are not facts at all. I talked to my son about what I read, and he did not have to sign a paper stating he would be shot by firing squad if he went AWOL. He was also never beaten with a sock, and never asked to beat anyone with a sock. He's had 13 troops in his division go AWOL, and some took their punishment and stayed or took their punishment and left. There was no need for Keys to jump the border.
Oh, I did talk to my son about the concerns I had in the book, he told me that someone was lying. So, if you do go ahead and read this book, keep that in mind.
Other "facts" I found disturbing is how he was able to use his own name and not once, but twice, file and receive a tax return. The "facts" in the book are not facts at all. I talked to my son about what I read, and he did not have to sign a paper stating he would be shot by firing squad if he went AWOL. He was also never beaten with a sock, and never asked to beat anyone with a sock. He's had 13 troops in his division go AWOL, and some took their punishment and stayed or took their punishment and left. There was no need for Keys to jump the border.
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