{"product_id":"books-what-we-are-now-by-crawford-john","title":"What We are Now","description":"In the tradition of Michael Herr's \u003ci\u003eDispatches\u003c\/i\u003e, a National Guardsman's account of the war in Iraq. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition, willingly exchanging one weekend a month and two weeks a year for a free education. But in Autumn 2002, one semester short of graduating and newly married--in fact, on his honeymoon--he was called to active duty and sent to the front lines in Iraq.\u003cp\u003eCrawford and his unit spent months upon months patrolling the streets of Baghdad, occupying a hostile city. During the breaks between patrols, Crawford began recording what he and his fellow soldiers witnessed and experienced. Those stories became \u003ci\u003eThe Last True Story I'll Ever Tell\u003c\/i\u003e--a haunting and powerful, compellingly honest book that imparts the on-the-ground reality of waging the war in Iraq, and marks as the introduction of a mighty literary voice forged in the most intense of circumstances.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53675413864721,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781573223140.jpg?v=1781542106","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-what-we-are-now-by-crawford-john","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}