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Combat and Other Shenanigans: Tales of the Absurd from a Deployment to Iraq Paperback – February 25, 2014
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- Print length178 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateFebruary 25, 2014
- Dimensions6 x 0.45 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101496128672
- ISBN-13978-1496128676
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- Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (February 25, 2014)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 178 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1496128672
- ISBN-13 : 978-1496128676
- Item Weight : 9.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.45 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,145,647 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #595 in Iraq War Biographies
- #1,157 in Iraq War History (Books)
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About the author

Piers Platt is the New York Times bestselling author of "Combat and Other Shenanigans," a memoir of his year-long deployment to Iraq as a tank and scout platoon leader. Piers grew up in Boston, but spent most of his childhood in various boarding schools, including getting trained as a classical singer at a choir school for boys. He joined the Army in 2002, and spent four years on active duty.
When he's not writing or spending time with his lovely wife and daughter, Piers works as a strategy consultant in New York city.
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He is able to portray the life of a serviceman during a deployment, the boredom, poor rations, the sand, the squalor. silly army regulations, questionable leadership. The army at its best is basically dysfunctional, ask anyone who has served.They manage to get by, there are problems with equipment,men who should never have been enlisted because of their low standards. But what makes the book interesting are those few, the exception to the rule, the men who excel at what they do. They were born to be soldiers and they must carry the weight, have the answers, be able to keep the riff raft in line and hold them to the mission and keep what ever discipline they can muster. This is not to be confused with WWII or Korea, this is America flexing its muscle which really comes down to our advance technology. Oh how important good leadership is and there we seem to be lacking. The author illustrates some close calls, but calls into question, WTF were we doing their?
As I was finishing the book, national news was reporting that almost the entire city of Samarra was now in the hands of the Taliban. This city figured prominently in this book. What a shame that this entire battle, if not the war, appears to have been fought for nothing!
Filled with the boring mundane, that is.military life, punctuated with the sudden violance and lifethreatinng actionof all battlefields. A good read. I was always waiting for the other shoe to drop .the syle of writingwas engaging and painted the picture of one mans experiance of his first time in the modern feld of battle. May we send no more young men and women into harms way to satisfy old mens ambitions!
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that step up to a high level to protect each other and make a difference to the innocent people
they are protecting. Loved the humor in your book.........