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

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Dell Publishing Company, 1987 - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - 205 pages
Before writing his award-winning "Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave us this searing, 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 heartfelt, "If I Die in a Combat Zone has been hailed as a masterwork of art in its genre.

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If I Die in a Combat Zone
Tim O'Brien
No preview available - 1989

About the author (1987)

Tim O'Brien was born on October 1, 1946 in Austin, Minnesota. He graduated from Macalester College in 1968 and was immediately drafted into the U. S. Army, serving from 1969 to 1970 and receiving a Purple Heart. Three years later, his memoirs of the Vietnam War were published as If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home. Later works include Northern Lights (1975), Going After Cacciato (1978, winner of the National Book Award), and The Things They Carried (1990, winner of the Melcher Book Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award).

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TitleIf I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
A Dell Book
A Laurel edition
Laurel book
AuthorTim O'Brien
Edition2, reprint
PublisherDell Publishing Company, 1987
ISBN0440343119, 9780440343110
Length205 pages
  
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