Last True Story I'll Ever Tell : An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq

John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition. One weekend a month. Two weeks a year. A free education. But in 2002, one semester shy of graduation and on his honeymoon, Crawford was shipped off to the front lines in Iraq. Once there he was determined to get it all down, to chronicle the daily life of a soldier in all its brutal, terrifying, heartbreaking honesty. The Last True Story I'll Ever Tellintroduces a powerful new literary voice forged in the most intense of circumstances.

John Crawford was newly married when his National Guard unit shipped out for Iraq-where they stayed for more than a year. He now lives in Florida. He no longer has any affiliation with the military.