Book description
Iraq, late 2007. Lieutenant Matt Gallagher arrives just as US policy
shifts from lethal operations to counter-insurgency. He encounters a
world where nothing is as it seems. Friends are enemies,
reconciliation is war, roads are bombs and silence is deadly. Nothing
left to do except 'embrace the suck'...
...and blog about it. Matt Gallagher's response was to write an
on-line journal (called Kaboom) which quickly went viral. Read
by thousands of soldiers who recognised its unflinchingly honest
portrayal of the real war, as well as high-ranking Pentagon officials
and interested parties around the world, Kaboom was shut down
by the US Army in June 2008. Now you can read the whole story, based
on that brilliant, acerbic, banned blog. Kaboom paints a
shockingly original and uncompromising portrait of a savage war the
world is still struggling to understand.
Matt Gallagher joined the US Army in 2005 and received a commission
in the armoured cavalry. Following a 15-month deployment in Iraq,
Gallagher left the army in 2009. He now lives in New York City.
