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If I die in a combat zone : [electronic resource] box me up and ship me home / Tim O'Brien.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: A Laurel bookPublication details: New York, N.Y. : Dell Pub., 1987, c1973.Description: 205 p. ; 17 cmISBN:
  • 0440343119 (pbk.)
  • 9780440343110 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 959.704/342/0924
LOC classification:
  • DS559.5 .O37 1987
Other classification:
  • HU 4610
  • HU 9800
Online resources: Subject: 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 Zone is a masterwork of its genre.
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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 Zone is a masterwork of its genre.

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