Released during the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War, this book offers a unique perspective on the War through the journals of Dave Conklin. He describes firsthand the horrors of war during the year 2004 while he was deployed as an American soldier; and again in 2005 as a civilian contractor in Baghdad, Iraq. It also provides a glimpse of this American's experiences and thoughts as he muses, sometimes seriously, sometimes sarcastically, about his daily life in a war zone. The book is peppered with his photos of these events.