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Book

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

Call Number

  • 959.7 O13B (CEN)

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Edition

1st Broadway Books trade pbk. ed.

Publication Information

New York : Broadway Books, 1999.

Physical Description

209 p. ; 21 cm.

Summary

O'Brien's searing memoir of his years as a soldier in Vietnam takes readers with him through the ghostly ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong.

Contents

  • Days
  • Pro Patria
  • Beginning
  • Nights
  • Under the mountain
  • Escape
  • Arrival
  • Alpha company
  • Ambush
  • Man at the well
  • Assault
  • Mori
  • My lai in May
  • Step lightly
  • Centurion
  • Wise endurance
  • July
  • Lagoon
  • Dulce et Decorum
  • Another war
  • Hearts and minds
  • Courage is a certain kind of preserving
  • Don't I know you?

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