Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army, (Paperback)

from lindseymeyer

Young, brash, and plain-speaking Arabic translator takes the reader inside the good the bad and the ugly of both the U.S. Army and the War in Iraq, circa early 2000s. Her observations of American behavior and its effects on the locals makes a good case for peace and against bad management, even a...

from Rhyla

I picked up this book because it was on sale and I happen to have a thing for memoirs and figured "why not, could be interesting!" This is the first memoir I've read from someone in the military, and I did find it interesting. The writer does not try and hide her flaws and I appreciated that in h...

from ruststar

An interesting read, if weakly executed. Kayla Williams was an arabic linguist serving in Iraq and describes her experiences as a female soldier in an almost all-male world. She's not a great writer (and it's not clear what role the other author, Michael Staub, had in the book) but it was still a...