Swofford, Anthony.

Summary: Describes how the author found redemption from a life of drugs, alcohol, fast cars, and women by taking a series of RV trips with his ailing, Vietnam veteran father and a chance encounter with his future wife.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2012

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Swofford, Anthony.

Summary: The memoir of a marine who served as a sniper during the Gulf War. Offers a devastating account of the war from the viewpoint of one who experienced it firsthand and lived to tell his story, in all its horror.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7 SWO

Summary: Follows "Swoff," a third-generation Marine enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through the Middle East deserts. There is no cover from intolerable heat or from the Iraqi soldiers, who are always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jarhead 2006