Copyright page has full number line "1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2". Boards are gray with silver lettering on black cloth spine. Back of dust jacket has five reviews - by Scott Anderson, Joy Williams, Chris Offut, William Boyd, and Jonathan Shay. Back flap has photo of the author. Published in March of 2003, and basis of the 2005 film by the same name.
From the dust jacket - "Unlike the real-time print and television coverage of the Gulf War, which was highly scripted by the Pentagon, Swofford's account subverts the conventional wisdom that U.S. military interventions are now merely surgical insertions of superior forces that result in few American casualties. Jarhead insists we remember the Americans who are in fact wounded or killed, the fields of enemy corpes left behind, and the continuing difficulty that American soldiers have reentering civilian life."
Jarhead is classified in the following category: History
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