<DIV>Based on Captain Matt Gallagher's controversial and popular blog, which the U.S. Army shut down in June 2008, <I>Kaboom</I> is a sardonic, unnerving, one-of-a-kind Iraq war memoir. "At turns hilarious, maddening and terrifying," providing "raw and insightful snapshots of conflict" (<I>Washington Post</I>), <I>Kaboom</I> resonates with stoical detachment from and timeless insight into a war that we are still trying to understand.</DIV>