The Aardvark Is Ready for War
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ISBN: 1560255463 / Publisher: Da Capo Press, July 2003
A debut novel weaves a compelling, ironic tale about the experiences of an Anti-Submarine Warfare Specialist Second Class who calls himself Aardvark, on his way via aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf War. Reprint.
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In the great American tradition of subversive war novels, The Aardvark Is Ready for War is a tour de force black comedy about one man's adventure inside the techno-military machine as he ships out aboard a naval aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf War. Caustic, disturbing, and fiercely funny, The Aardvark is Ready for War is the defining novel of modern warfare ? that conducted with smart bombs and cathode ray tubes, and transmitted by CNN to homes across the world.
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