The Blog of War Book is Released

Posted on September 5, 2006

The Blog of War by Matthew Currier Burden, the founder of Blackfive.net, was released today. It has already to jumped to #273 on Amazon.com's list of bestselling books. The book features the writings from dozens of military bloggers, also known as milbloggers.

Publishers Weekly says, "The best (if sometimes troublesome) selections relate personal experiences: a woman trucker is severely wounded; a tanker fights his way into Fallujah, enthusiastically describing the men he kills; a base commander fires an obstreperous Iraqi employee. More literary efforts are less successful, with several wince-inducing attempts at poetic battlefield imagery. Tributes to fallen comrades often fall into mawkishness."

Vanity Fair writes, "Can you handle the truth? Matthew Currier 'Blackfive' Burden's The Blog of War (Simon & Schuster) is loaded with firsthand reports from the Internet diaries of soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Grab it before the Pentagon orders it burned on the ever growing bonfire of lost civil liberties."

You can also check out the blogs of the milbloggers whose words were included in the book. The full list can be found here on Blackfive.net.