Love My Rifle More Than You
Young and Female in the U.S. Army
By Kayla Williams; Michael E. Staub
(W. W. Norton & Company, Paperback, 9780393329223, 292pp.)
Publication Date: September 2006
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover
Categories: Military, Military - Iraq War (2003-), Women
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Description
Kayla Williams is one of the 15 percent of the U.S. Army that is female, and she is a great storyteller. With a voice that is funny, frank and full of gritty details ("New York Daily News"), she tells of enlisting under Clinton; of learning Arabic; of the sense of duty that fractured her relationships; of being surrounded by bravery and bigotry, sexism and fear; of seeing 9/11 on Al-Jazeera; and of knowing she would be going to war.With a passion that makes her memoir nearly impossible to put down ("Buffalo News") Williams shares the powerful gamut of her experiences in Iraq, from caring for a wounded civilian to aiming a rifle at a child. Angry at the bureaucracy and the conflicting messages of today s military, Williams offers us a raw, unadulterated look at war ("San Antonio Express News") and at the U.S. Army. And she gives us a woman s story of empowerment and self-discovery.
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