Ghosts of war
the true story of a 19-year-old GI
About this book
Ryan Smithson joined the Army Reserve when he was seventeen. Two years later, he was deployed to Iraq as an Army engineer. In this extraordinary and harrowing memoir, readers march along one GI's tour of duty. It will change the way you feel about what it means to be an American.
Subjects
- american personal narratives
- biography
- history
- iraq war, 2003
- iraq war, 2003-
- iraq war, 2003-2011
- iraq war, 2003-2011, juvenile literature
- juvenile literature
- military
- nonfiction
- personal narratives
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- soldiers
- soldiers, united states
- young adult nonfiction