{"product_id":"the-last-true-story-ill-john-crawford-9781594482014","title":"The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq","description":"In the tradition of Michael Herr's \u003ci\u003eDispatches\u003c\/i\u003e, a National Guardsman's account of the war in Iraq. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition, willingly exchanging one weekend a month and two weeks a year for a free education. But in Autumn 2002, one semester short of graduating and newly married--in fact, on his honeymoon--he was called to active duty and sent to the front lines in Iraq.\u003cp\u003eCrawford and his unit spent months upon months patrolling the streets of Baghdad, occupying a hostile city. During the breaks between patrols, Crawford began recording what he and his fellow soldiers witnessed and experienced. Those stories became \u003ci\u003eThe Last True Story I'll Ever Tell\u003c\/i\u003e--a haunting and powerful, compellingly honest book that imparts the on-the-ground reality of waging the war in Iraq, and marks as the introduction of a mighty literary voice forged in the most intense of circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Crawford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1594482012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781594482014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.02h x 5.16w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/23\/2006 pg. 28","brand":"John Crawford","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43989345468671,"sku":"9781594482014","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7cf4293c-38b3-4d7a-a7af-3c4f2c285f71.jpg?v=1683298986","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-last-true-story-ill-john-crawford-9781594482014","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}