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Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army

By Kayla Williams, with Michael E. Staub

Norton, 290 pages, $24.95

This former sergeant in a military intelligence company of the 101st Airborne Division–part of the 15 percent of the Army that is female–is foul-mouthed, wry and insightful as she tells of being a woman among men, stationed in Iraq and a remote outpost on the Syrian border.