This book is the first memoir written and published about the Gulf War by a frontline infantry Marine. I read this book after seeing the movie. I watched it with my exboyfriend who wanted nothing more in his life to be a Marine. (He did grow up to become one.) This book is sentimental to me for this reason, but it was a good book. It was a moving account of someone suffering through wartime. I did like the book better than the movie, but this is just really sentimental to me.