Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army, Paperback/Kayla Williams

With a passion that makes her memoir "nearly impossible to put down" Buffalo News ) Williams shares the powerful gamut of her experiences in Iraq, from caring for a wounded civilian to aiming a rifle at a child. Angry at the bureaucracy and the conflicting messages of today's military, Williams offers us "a raw, unadulterated look at war" ( San Antonio Express News ) and at the U.S. Army. And she gives us a woman's story of empowerment and self-discovery.