Behind Enemy Lines: Under Fire in the Middle East, by Bill Doyle (Scholastic, 2011, $3.99, 136pp PB) Review by Skye Anderson
Navy, Army, Air Force and civilians - men and women - human IEDs, and medics in Iraq, and running out of rice, familiar places in Afghanistan, and teachers and bribes in Pakistan (the first chapters I read were the Afghanistan stories and one even mentioned where I had been stationed!)
You can read Behind Enemy Lines in any order - it takes place from the 90s into the 2000s and each story you read is more exciting than the last so you will read the remainder faster and faster.
You will read a short version of Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell which later became the book Lone Survivor.
The last story I had the courage to read was about three dogs on a US military base in Afghanistan but I'll let you find out what happened, if you can read through your tears. Again.
The style is written for a young boy (or girl) with the words that might go through the mind of a soldier in danger - afterwards. To make the situation more dangerous and exciting and heroic, that is. But reality is as exciting as it needs to be.
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