[Tim O'Brien] µ If I die in a combat zone: Box me up and ship me home [a Book] PDF ✓ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB

• Title : If I die in a combat zone: Box me up and ship me home
• Author : Tim O'Brien
• Rating : 4.74 (833 Vote)
• Publish : 2014-7-2
• Format : Mass Market Paperback
• Pages : 251 Pages
• Asin : B0006XJY1C
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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 ambiguitie

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.

You will like this one.. The information is very useful and comprehensive. At least, I'm assuming the mistakes in my kindle version were primarily related to its electronic re-formatting, and hopefully weren't in the print editions. The story line was fantastic and the author did a really good job writing a story that everyone can relate to. Great for home schooling. An insight into part politics and part interpersonal relationships. In the last chapters the author even sets about sounding depths for which the reader arguably has not been sufficiently prepared; I still wonder if these late twists add an extra layer of complexity or simply strike a false note and ultimately are Nicholls' misguided bid for being shelved with the serious authors.The concluding pages are heavily fragrant with bitter-sweetness, again something an author introduces at his own risk; but on the other hand there is no denying that the unexpected narrative device used in these pages conveys an adeqaute impression of things coming full circle and being brought to a close.And yes, I was moved, so no more niggling and five stars out of five.. Whereas the book is somewhat out of date-- it contains copies of a lot of old paper forms whereas the world is going digital and online-- it's good to have familiarity with the content and purpose of these forms anyway as they document the process itself, which you need to unde

I read the others and burned them, too. If I Die in a Combat Zone is more than just a memoir of a disastrous war; it is also a meditation on heroism and cowardice, on the mutability of truth and morality in a war zone and, most of all, on the simple, human capacity to endure the unendurable. Award-winning novels such as Going After Cacciato and The Things They Carried offer up a surreal view of the war: a soldier who decides to walk to Paris, leaving only a trail of M&M's in his wake; a young man who imports his high-school girlfriend to his base camp high in the jungled mountains, only to lose her to a shadowy squad of Special Forces Green Berets and to "that mix of unnamed terror and unnamed pleasure" that was Vietnam. You hallucinate. I simply couldn't bring myself to flee. I burned the letters to my family. "The AWOL bag was ready to go, but I wasn't. If I Die in a Combat Zone has all of the eloquence and attention to language and detail that are a mark of the author's work; what is different about it is its straightforward, unembellishe