Title: If I die in a combat zone, box me up and ship me home /
Authors: O'Brien, Tim, 1946-
Publisher: Broadway Books,
Year: 1999
Subjects: O'Brien, Tim,; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Personal narratives, American
Abstract: 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?