The Green Marine: An Irishman's War in Iraq

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Dubliner Graham Dale, an IT specialist living in Texas, was working as a volunteer with a fire department when he heard that an airplane had hit the World Trade Centre in New York. As the tragic events unfolded before his eyes, he suddenly realised that he could no longer remain a spectator in the face of this appalling atrocity. There and then he made a decision that was to affect the rest of his life; he drove to the nearest Military Recruitment Centre and enlisted in the US Marines. After surviving months of constant mental and physical torture in the notoriously tough Marine Boot Camp in San Diego, he joined the ranks of one of the most elite branches of the United States military and two years later found himself patrolling the dangerous wastes of the western desert in war-torn Iraq. Throughout his deployment in Iraq, Dale kept a daily journal to give us an astonishing, true account of one man s fight in the frontline of America s War on Terror . Told with brutal honesty, he gives us a unique and rare insight from an Irishman, fighting for a foreign military in a very foreign land.

Graham Dale is an IT specialist living and working in Texas. He is originally from Raheny, Dublin.

'A revealing personal insight into the consequences for one man of the decision to invade Iraq.' -- Irish Independent 20080607 'An unusual perspective on a soldier doing his duty and wrestling with the politics of a bigger picture.' -- RTE Guide 20080524