Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
Another nameless town, another target for First Recon. It's only five in the afternoon, but a sandtorm has plunged everything into a hellish twilight of murky, red dust. On rooftops, in alleyways l…
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