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Combat has always been a way for young Americans to define themselves as a generation. Rolling Stone's Evan Wright was embedded with a Marine reconnaissance unit, and his Generation Kill (Putnam; 354 pages) is a pungently written combat narrative and a close-range study of a bunch of twentysomething warriors trying to get a handle on who they are. At times they come across as cynical adrenaline junkies: "If the dominant mythology of [Vietnam] turns on a generation's loss of innocence," Wright observes, "these young men entered Iraq predisposed toward the idea that...
...Staff writer Evan M. Vittor can be reached at evittor@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Evan M. Vittor can be reached at evittor@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Evan M. Vittor can be reached at vittor@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Evan M. Vittor can be reached at evittor@fas.harvard.edu...