Matthew Currier Burden founded www.blackfive.net, one of the most popular military blogs on the Internet. His blog began as an homage to a friend killed on duty in Iraq and quickly became a source of information about what was really happening in Afghanistan and Iraq.

In The Blog of War Burden presents selections from some of the best of the military blogs, the purest account of the many voices of this war. This is the first real-time history of a war, a history written even as the war continues. It offers a glimpse into the full range of military experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq, from the decision to enlist right through to homecoming.

There are powerful stories of soldiers in combat, touching reflections on helping local victims of terror and war, pulse-racing accounts of med-evac units and hospitals, and heartbreaking chronicles of spouses who must cope when a loved one has paid the ultimate price.

The Blog of War provides an uncensored, intimate, and authentic version of life in the war zone. Dozens of voices come together in a wartime choir that conveys better than any second-hand account possibly can what it is like to serve on the front lines.

Visit The Blog of War: Front-Line Dispatches from Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan Download Page

PDF format. The password to unlock the download is blogwar.

Introduction • 1
1. Some Must Go to Fight the Dragons • 7
2. Life in a War Zone • 29
3. The Healers • 60
4. Leaders, Warriors, and Diplomats • 96
5. The Warriors • 140
6. Heroes of the Homefront • 185
7. The Fallen • 208
8. Homecoming • 242
Epilogue • 257
Glossary • 271
Acknowledgments • 281
Index • 283

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Matthew Currier Burden enlisted in the military when he was seventeen. He left the military as a major in the U.S. Army Reserve in July 2001. During his last assignment as executive officer of an intelligence detachment for the Defense Intelligence Agency, Burden’s unit received the Joint Meritorious Unit Award from the secretary of defense for their work in modernizing military intelligence gathering and analysis.

He has a master of science degree (computer science) from the University of Chicago, where he received the Faculty Award. After the death of his friend in Iraq, Burden started Blackfive.net in mid-2003 to support the troops fighting the War on Terror and tell their stories.

Blackfive.net quickly became one of the most visited and linked blogs and has won consecutive Best Military Blog titles in the Weblog Awards.

"The Blog of War" eBook free for Enlisted Military
Posted By Blackfive

http://www.blackfive.net/main/2006/09/the_blog_of_war_3.html

In negotiations for "The Blog of War", one of the issues on the table was that I wanted the eBook version available for free for all of our deployed enlisted troops.  However, managing the distribution of that process would have been too difficult.

So, Simon & Schuster, to their credit (and having gone through the arduous book deal process with them, I can tell you that they are an amazing group of people) decided to put up a link to the PDF version of the eBook for Enlisted members to download for free.  We decided to provide it on the honor system and not spend time authorizing people to download the PDF file.

This offer is only good until the end of October.  

You can use this link to Simon & Schuster's download page.  The password to unlock the download is blogwar .

Please forward this to any enlisted people you think might be interested.

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