Jarhead

The Few, The Proud: A Jarhead memoir of the First Gulf War

April 21, 2012December 22, 2020

The mythology, the dogtag dogma, the cult of masculinity and most of all the haircut, set US Marines apart. Mark Simpson on a memoir of the First Gulf War. (Independent on Sunday 23/03/2003) It may seem odd that the United… Read More »The Few, The Proud: A Jarhead memoir of the First Gulf War

Lashings of manly love in a Humvee – review of ‘One Bullet Away’

July 31, 2006December 22, 2020

‘One Bullet Away: the making of a Marine Officer’, Nathaniel Fick (Orion) Reviewed by Mark Simpson Why do we blokes – and it is almost always blokes – read war books, catch war movies and play twitchy first-person Second World War… Read More »Lashings of manly love in a Humvee – review of ‘One Bullet Away’