Erdogan Pizza - by John Carroll Dolan (Paperback)

About the Book

'The War Nerd' John Dolan describes his comic odyssey around the world and offers insight into the military history of each country he visits. Educational, entertaining and appalling in equal measure.

Book Synopsis

Erdogan Pizza is a one-of-a-kind travel memoir that records 'The War Nerd' John Dolan's comic odyssey around the world between 2014 and 2020. In spite of anemia, food poisoning, and attempted assassination-by-delivery scooter, he brings his readers unforgettable accounts of the Greek economic crisis, the uneasy peace of modern Belfast, and the pitiful state of Albanian buses. In his role as War Nerd, he scans each landscape for signs of conflict and describes its military history with his characteristic blend of elegiac lyricism, blinding insight, and gory humor. Fans of Radio War Nerd, will appreciate the origin story of the podcast, which Dolan started with Mark Ames in 2015 and which has since became a popular source of military reporting and analysis.

Review Quotes

"Erdogan Pizza isn't just an accidental travel book - it's an aggressively anti-travel book, inverting conventions of the genre without trying, which is what makes it so funny and endlessly surprising, and why Erdogan Pizza is destined to be a classic of the genre." Mark Ames