Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq
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9780306817434 - Steve Fainaru: Big Boy Rules, America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq
Steve Fainaru

Big Boy Rules, America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq (2008)

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ISBN: 9780306817434 bzw. 0306817438, in Englisch, The Perseus Books Group, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.

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Travelling in Iraq with a group of US security contractors - mercenaries or mercs - a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter reveals in gritty detail the men who live by Big Boy Rules. A parallel army lives on the margins of the Iraq war - nearly 100,000 armed men, invisible yet in plain sight, doing jobs the overstretched and understaffed military can't or won't. The US media call them 'security contractors'. They call themselves 'mercs' and operate under their own rules. Pulitzer prize-winning report... Travelling in Iraq with a group of US security contractors - mercenaries or mercs - a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter reveals in gritty detail the men who live by Big Boy Rules. A parallel army lives on the margins of the Iraq war - nearly 100,000 armed men, invisible yet in plain sight, doing jobs the overstretched and understaffed military can't or won't. The US media call them 'security contractors'. They call themselves 'mercs' and operate under their own rules. Pulitzer prize-winning reporter Steve Fainaru travelled with several groups of security contractors to find out what motivates them to put their lives in danger every day.What emerges is a searing, revealing and sometimes darkly funny look at the men who live and work in the battlefields of Iraq: some are desperate, some are confused and some are just out for a lark. Some disappear into the void that is Iraq and are never seen again. It's not a pretty picture, but it's brutally real and shockingly honest. Big Boy Rules is an unforgettable leap into the mayhem of Iraq and the dark recesses of the minds of American policy makers and the warriors they hire.Taal: Engels;Afmetingen: 28x234x163 mm;Gewicht: 476,00 gram;Verschijningsdatum: november 2008;ISBN10: 0306817438;ISBN13: 9780306817434; Engelstalig | Hardcover | 2008.
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9780306817434 - Steve Fainaru: Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq
Steve Fainaru

Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq (2008)

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ISBN: 9780306817434 bzw. 0306817438, in Englisch, 288 Seiten, Da Capo Press, gebundenes Buch, neu, Erstausgabe.

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There are tens of thousands of them in Iraq. They work for companies with exotic and ominous-sounding names, like Crescent Security Group, Triple Canopy, and Blackwater Worldwide. They travel in convoys of multicolored pickups fortified with makeshift armor, belt-fed machine guns, frag grenades, and even shoulder-fired missiles. They protect everything from the U.S. ambassador and American generals to shipments of Frappuccino bound for Baghdad’s Green Zone. They kill Iraqis, and Iraqis kill them. And the only law they recognize is Big Boy Rules. From a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter comes a harrowing journey into Iraq’s parallel war. Part MadMax, part Fight Club, it is a world filled with “private security contractors”—the U.S. government’s sanitized name for tens of thousands of modern mercenaries, or mercs, who roam Iraq with impunity, doing jobs that the overstretched and understaffed military can’t or won’t do. They are men like Jon Coté, a sensitive former U.S. army paratrooper and University of Florida fraternity brother who realizes too late that he made a terrible mistake coming back to Iraq. And Paul Reuben, a friendly security company medic who has no formal medical training and lacks basic supplies, like tourniquets. They are part of America’s “other” army—some patriotic, some desperate, some just out for cash or adventure. And some who disappear into the void that is Iraq and are never seen again. Washington Post reporter Steve Fainaru traveled with a group of private security contractors to find out what motivates them to put their lives in danger every day. He joined Jon Coté and the men of Crescent Security Group as they made their way through Iraq—armed to the teeth, dodging not only bombs and insurgents but also their own Iraqi colleagues. Just days after Fainaru left to go home, five men of Crescent Security Group were kidnapped in broad daylight on Iraq’s main highway. How the government and the company responded reveals the dark truths behind the largest private force in the history of American warfare. . . . With 16 pages of photographs  , Hardcover, Ausgabe: First Edition, Label: Da Capo Press, Da Capo Press, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 2008-11-11, Studio: Da Capo Press, Verkaufsrang: 1547462.
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9780306817434 - Big Boy Rules: Americas Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq

Big Boy Rules: Americas Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq

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ISBN: 9780306817434 bzw. 0306817438, in Englisch, Consultants Bureau, and Kluwer Academic (NY), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, gebundenes Buch.

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This is a hard cover book. The dust jacket shows normal wear and tear. The cover has visible markings and wear. The pages have normal wear. We ship Monday-Saturday and respond to inquries within 24 hours.
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Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq (2008)

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Second City Books, IL, Aurora, [RE:5].
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Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq (2008)

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ISBN: 9780306817434 bzw. 0306817438, in Englisch, Da Capo Press, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Yankee Clipper Books, CT, Windsor Locks, [RE:5].
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