Big boy rules : America's mercenaries fighting in Iraq / Steve Fainaru.

[Cambridge, Mass.] : Da Capo Press, c2008.

xvii, 254 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.

The work that nearly 100,000 armed men do alongside the overworked military during the Iraq war as "security contractors" is examined in a gritty account of the lives of these mercenaries, their dangerous assignments, and their motivation for doing what they do.

English

March 09, 2009

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235) and index.