num_pages: 199
description: 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. "[O'Brien's] landscapes have the breadth and scope of Tolstoy's and the essential American wonder and innocence of his vision deserves to stand beside that of Stephen Crane"--National Book Award Committee
language: English
title: If I Die In A Combat Zone Box Me Up & Ship Me Home
titlecomplete: If I Die In A Combat Zone Box Me Up & Ship Me Home
genres: Historical, Biography, Military History, Military Fiction, War, Nonfiction, Autobiography, History, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 10692
places: Michigan, Vietnam
publisher: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence