Chasnoff, Joel.

The 188th Crybaby Brigade : a skinny Jewish kid from Chicago fights Hezbollah: a memoir / The one hundred eighty eight Crybaby Brigade Joel Chasnoff. - 1st Free Press hardcover ed. - New York : Free Press, 2010. - ix, 269 p. : ill., samples; 24 cm.

The Russian -- Hero of the Jews -- Mr. Bay City High School -- Fifty-eight soldiers in formation, one soldier guarding the bunk, and Clemente's taking a shit -- Aviva -- Our fathers -- Cub Scouts -- Buttons and snaps -- Cardboard Arabs -- Tim Bailey -- Glory -- Walking miracles -- Daniel and Bernard -- Captain Bad News -- Hard-core Jews -- The 188th Crybaby Brigade -- Sons -- The armored corps sing-along jamboree -- Funeral dreams -- The march for the black beret -- Beautiful children -- I! Love! Tanks! -- Fuck sheets -- Work makes free -- Spoiled American -- Snow -- Game over -- The gayest tank on Earth -- Starbucks of Lebanon -- Cat and mouse -- Three-peat -- House of mirrors -- The farm -- Hard-core Jews, part II -- Thirty-nine days -- The unluckiest dog in Lebanon -- Son of David -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: South Lebanon security zone recipes -- Appendix B: Glossary of Israeli military slang.

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