Ghosts of War: The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI

About this book

In this extraordinary and harrowing memoir follow one GIs tour of duty as Ryan Smithson brings readers inside a world that few understand. This is no ordinary teenagers story. Instead of opting for college life Ryan Smithson joined the Army Reserve when he was seventeen. Two years later he was deployed to Iraq as an Army engineer. His storyand the stories of thousands of other soldiersis nothing like what you see on CNN or read about in the New York Times. This unforgettable story about combat friendship fear and a soldiers commitment to his country peels back the curtain on the realities of war in a story all Americans should read.