Anthony Swofford
Anthony Swofford served in a U.S. Marine Corps Surveillance and Target Acquisition/Scout-Sniper platoon during the Gulf War. After the war, he was educated at American River College; the University of California, Davis; and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has taught at the University of Iowa and Lewis and Clark College. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in "The New York Times, Harper's, Men's Journal, The Iowa Review, " and other publications. A Michener-Copernicus...See more
Anthony Swofford served in a U.S. Marine Corps Surveillance and Target Acquisition/Scout-Sniper platoon during the Gulf War. After the war, he was educated at American River College; the University of California, Davis; and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has taught at the University of Iowa and Lewis and Clark College. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in "The New York Times, Harper's, Men's Journal, The Iowa Review, " and other publications. A Michener-Copernicus Fellowship recipient, he lives in New York. See less
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Anthony Swofford book reviews
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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
Disturbing Dreams
by riverrun, Mar 17, 2009
Anthony Swofford's Jarhead is an instructive memoir of the first Gulf War and its brutality, obscenity and boredom by a decorated Marine who can write a true sentence.
Now that the U.S. has been ... Read More
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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
My Marine Corps
I spent 27 years - half my life - in the Marine Corps. "Jarhead" portrays the Marine Corps that I was in. Anthony Swofford writes about the real Marine Corps better than anyone else ever has. He ... Read More
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Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles
by pi48, Nov 15, 2007
I have read the book and feel that it does a great disservervice to all active Marines and Marine Corps Veterans. In no way does it reflect the Esprit de Corps and attitude of Marines that I lived ... Read More