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If I Die in a Combat Zone

Box Me Up and Ship Me Home

Box Me Up and Ship Me Home

By Tim O’Brien

By Tim O’Brien

By Tim O’Brien

By Tim O’Brien

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Sep 01, 1999 | ISBN 9780767904438

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Aug 24, 2011 | ISBN 9780307762924

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    About If I Die in a Combat Zone

    A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of The Things They Carried

    “One of the best, most disturbing, and most powerful books about the shame that was / is Vietnam.”
    —Minneapolis Star and Tribune

    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.

    Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content.

    About If I Die in a Combat Zone

    A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of The Things They Carried

    “One of the best, most disturbing, and most powerful books about the shame that was / is Vietnam.”
    —Minneapolis Star and Tribune

    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.

    Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content.

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    About Tim O’Brien

    Tim O’Brien received the 1979 National Book Award in Fiction for Going After Cacciato. His novel The Things They Carried won France’s prestigious Prix de Meilleur Livre Étranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. His novels In the Lake of the Woods and Tomcat in Love, were national bestsellers.

    About Tim O’Brien

    Tim O’Brien received the 1979 National Book Award in Fiction for Going After Cacciato. His novel The Things They Carried won France’s prestigious Prix de Meilleur Livre Étranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. His novels In the Lake of the Woods and Tomcat in Love, were national bestsellers.

    Product Details

    Category: Biography & Memoir | 1950 – Present Military History

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Crown
    Sep 01, 1999 | 240 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780767904438

    Category: Biography & Memoir | 1950 – Present Military History

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Crown
    Aug 24, 2011 | 224 Pages | ISBN 9780307762924
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    Praise

    “O’Brien brilliantly and quietly evokes the foot soldier’s daily life in the paddies and foxholes, evokes a blind, blundering war. . . . Tim O’Brien writes with the care and eloquence of someone for whom communication is still a vital possibility. . . . A personal document of aching clarity. . . . A beautiful, painful book.”
    —The New York Times Book Review

    “One of the best, most disturbing, and most powerful books about the shame that was / is Vietnam.”
    —Minneapolis Star and Tribune

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