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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.
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home (sometimes printed as If I Die In A Combat Zone or incorrectly as If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home) is an autobiographical account of Tim O'Brien's tour of duty in the Vietnam War.
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Tim O’Brien ’s memoir moves back and forth throughout time, jumping between the months before he deploys into the Vietnam War and his combat experiences in the field. The story opens with O’Brien and a young soldier named Barney hiking through the jungle, enduring constant sniper attacks and chatting about home.
If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home is an autobiographical account of writer Tim O'Brien's tour of duty in the Vietnam War. Published in 1973, it was one of the first major autobiographical accounts of the Vietnam War and has been praised extensively for its unflinching look at the horrors of armed conflict.
Beautifully written and searingly heartfelt, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a masterwork of its genre. 225 pages, Paperback. First published January 1, 1973. Tim O'Brien is an American novelist who served as a soldier in the Vietnam War.
If I Die in a Combat Zone m ay, in fact, be th e single greatest piece of work to come out of Vietnam, a work on a level with World War Two’s The Naked and the Dead and From Here to Eternity !”
First published in 1973, this intensely personal novel about one foot soldier's tour of duty in Vietnam established Tim O'Brien's reputation as the outstanding chronicler of the Vietnam experience for a generation of Americans.
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.
"If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home" by Tim O'Brien is a profound and evocative memoir that delves into the harrowing experiences of a young soldier during the Vietnam War.