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    No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife

    By Angela Ricketts

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    “If you’ve ever wanted to know what life on an army base is like, you have to read this amazingly honest memoir.” —PureWow
     
    Raised as an Army brat, Angie Ricketts thought she knew what she was in for when she eloped with Darrin—then an infantry lieutenant—on the eve of his deployment to Somalia. Since that time, Darrin, now a colonel, has been deployed eight times, serving four tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. And Ricketts, has lived every one of those deployments intimately—distant enough to survive the years spent apart from her husband, but close enough to share a common purpose and a lifestyle they both love.
     
    With humor, candor, and a brazen attitude, Ricketts pulls back the curtain on a subculture many readers know, but few ever will experience. Counter to the dramatized snap shot seen on the TV show Army Wives, Ricketts digs into the personalities and posturing that officers’ wives must survive daily—whether navigating a social event on post, suffering through a husbands prolonged deployment or reacting to a close friends death in combat.
     
    “Outspoken in her critique of the ‘Army machine,’ Ricketts celebrates the ‘secret sisterhood’ of soldiers’ wives, defiantly and desperately battling for survival. A blunt, bold debut memoir.” —Kirkus Reviews
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJun 16, 2014
    ISBN9781619023833
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      The author certainly has her hands full with her husband deployed and three kids to raise, but she leans toward annoying. No matter how bad she has it - he has it worse. Her implication that she has it just as hard as he does is laughable. While she has to deal with other wives he is dealing with insurgents.