If I die in a combat zone box me up and ship me home

Synopsis

Before writing his award-winningGoing 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 Zoneis a masterwork of its genre.