Full name: Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army

Author: Kayla Williams Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780393329223 0393329224

Kayla Williams is one of the 15 percent of the U.S. Army that is female, and she is a great storyteller. With a voice that is “funny, frank and full of gritty details” (New York Daily News), she tells of enlisting under Clinton; of learning Arabic; of the sense of duty that fractured her relationships; of being surrounded by bravery and bigotry, sexism and fear; of seeing 9/11 on Al-Jazeera; and of knowing she would be going to war.With a passion that makes her memoir “nearly impossible to put down” (Buffalo News) Williams shares the powerful gamut of her experiences in Iraq, from caring for a wounded civilian to aiming a rifle at a child. Angry at the bureaucracy and the conflicting messages of today’s military, Williams offers us “a raw, unadulterated look at war” (San Antonio Express News) and at the U.S. Army. And she gives us a woman’s story of empowerment and self-discovery. Similar books: The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell by John Crawford American Sniper by Chris Kyle My War by Colby Buzzell Shooter by Jack Coughlin On Call In Hell by Richard Jadick One Bullet Away by Nathaniel Fick Joker One by Donovan Campbell Rule Number Two by Heidi Squier Kraft Band of Sisters by Kirsten Holmstedt Jarhead by Anthony Swofford House to House by David Bellavia Soldier Girls by Helen Thorpe It Happened on the Way to War by Rye Barcott Between Two Worlds by Zainab Salbi The Junior Officers' Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey