C.J. Chivers is a former Marine officer and war correspondent. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2017 for his piece about a Marine’s journey home after combat, entitled ‘The Fighter.’ I saw this book a few years ago and wanted to read it but, like most books, it went to the back burner as newer and shiner books popped up. Then Chivers won the Pulitzer and I put the book on hold at the library. The Gun is, mostly, a history of […]