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Evan Wright is the author of Generation Kill (Putnam), an account of his time embedded with the U.S. Marines' 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, the lead American military unit in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. A seven-part miniseries based on the book, scripted by The Wire's Ed Burns and David Simon, premiered on HBO in July. Wright, a contributing editor to Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair, is currently working on a screenplay based on his Vanity Fair profile of the Hollywood agent turned conservative moviemaker Pat Dollard. In an email sent the day after Generation Kill's HBO premiere, Wright lists his three favorite war movies.

1 Sands of Iwo Jima (1949): "Not at all the gung-ho John Wayne movie it's often remembered as being, Jima presents Wayne as the heroic, conflicted, and doomed Sgt. Stryker. He is a timeless archetype: the ultimate warrior on the battlefield, a...