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If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home

A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIED

Before writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave us this intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam. The author takes us with him to experience combat from behind an infantryman's rifle, to walk the minefields of My Lai, to crawl into the ghostly tunnels, and to explore the ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong. Beautifully written and searingly heartfelt, If I Die in a Combat Zoneis a masterwork of its genre.

Subject
historybiographymemoir
Genre
war and militaryhistorical fictionliterary fiction
Themes
military historyamerican history
Setting
20th centuryvietnamasiacollegeUSA
Audience
adultyoung adult
Length
medium · 209 pages
Form
short stories

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