# My War

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- Authors: [Colby Buzzell](https://www.bookquiver.com/colby-buzzell)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2014-11-28

## Description

Once we passed the checkpoint at the border, it hit me. I was like, Holy Shit, this is it, I'm entering a combat zone. Cool! ' At twenty-six Colby Buzzell, unemployed and living at home, decided to join the US Army. Within months he was in Iraq, a machine gunner in the controversial Stryker Brigade Combat Team, an army unit on the cutting edge of combat technology and the first of its kind. Trapped amid 'guerrilla warfare, urban-style' in Mosul, Iraq, Buzzell was struck by the bizarre and often frightening world surrounding him. He began writing a blog describing the war - not as being reported by CNN or official briefings - but as experienced by the soldier on the ground. His story is a brutally honest and hard-hitting account of the absurdities of modern war. These are the real stories of the war: a firefight where the resistance came from 'men in black'; a night spent chain-smoking in the guard tower counting the tracer bullets being fired over the city; and the hesitation of a young soldier who had been passed around from platoon to platoon because he was too afraid to fight. My War is a powerful story of a young man and a war, unlike any you have read before.

## Editions

### My War

- Publisher: transworld_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7352-566-5
- Published: 2014-11-28
- Language: en_GB

### My War

- Publisher: dutton_caliber
- ISBN: 978-04-2521-136-6
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2006-09-05
- Language: en_US