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If I die in a combat zone box me up and ship me home

1992208 pagesTandem Library

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A candid view of the American military establishment and the Vietnam conflict as witnessed by a foot soldier in the late sixties.

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William Timothy O'Brien (born October 1, 1946) is an American novelist. He is best known for his book The Things They Carried (1990), a collection of linked semi-autobiographical stories inspired by O'Brien's experiences in the Vietnam War. In 2010, the New York Times described O'Brien's book as a Vietnam classic. In addition, he is known for his war novel, Going After Cacciato (1978), also about wartime Vietnam, and later novels about postwar lives of veterans. O'Brien has held the endow...

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