Shane comes home / Rinker Buck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buck, Rinker, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Childers, Shane, 1972-2003.

Childers, Shane.

United States. Marine Corps--Biography.

United States.

United States. Marine Corps.

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Biography.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Soldiers--United States--Biography.

Soldiers.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : William Morrow, [2005]

Summary:

On March 21, 2003, Marine Lieutenant Shane Childers became the first combat fatality of the Iraq War. In this gripping, beautifully written personal history, award-winning writer Rinker Buck chronicles Shane's death and his life, exploring its meaning for his family, his fellow soldiers and the country itself. Choosing the military, this relentlessly competitive young Marine built one of the most legendary military careers of his generation ? becoming a Gulf War veteran at age 18; a Marine Security Guard in Europe and Africa by his early twenties; a dean's list student at The Citadel; and then so valued as a platoon leader that he was among the first sent over the berm into Iraq in 2003. Shane Comes Home is the story of this intelligent, gifted soldier who embodied the soul of today's all-volunteer warrior class, but it is also about the town of Powell, Wyoming that had taken Shane into their hearts. It is also about the Marine detail sent to deliver the news to the Childers fami

ISBN:

0060593253

OCLC:

58596416