Dimensions
155 x 229 x 25mm
Launched as a military blog (or milblog) by Doonesbury creator GB Trudeau in October 2006, The Sandbox is an online forum through which service members in Afghanistan and Iraq share their stories. In hundreds of fascinating and compelling posts, soldiers write passionately, eloquently, and movingly of their day-to-day lives, of their mission, and of the drama that unfolds daily around them. Many of the most compelling posts from this blog have been compiled to form this brilliant and emotionally charged book.
For many readers, Doonesbury has long been something of a Rorschach test – they see in it what they are predisposed to see. Case in point, those who detect an anti-military bias in the strip. It may interest – if not confuse – these critics to learn that if GB Trudeau has such a bias, the military itself has failed to notice. During the first Gulf War, the Pentagon organised a touring exhibition of the Doonesbury war strips, and during Trudeau's visit to Kuwait, where he met hundreds of soldiers, he was awarded certificates of achievement by the Ready First Brigade and the 4th Battalion 67th Armor, which made him an "honorary Bandit for life".
