Soldier Talk
Subtitle: The Vietnam War in Oral Narrative
Contributors: Paul Vincent Budra (Editor); Michael Zeitlin (Editor)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: July 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780253344335
Subjects: American history: Vietnam War; Asian history: Vietnam War; Biography: general; Literary Collections; History - Military / War; Literature: Classics; The Americas; Historiography; Military - Vietnam War; American - General; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975
First sentence: In Gustav Hasford's novel The Short-Timers, a squad of American Marines is killing time out in the boonies, the enemy jungle of Vietnam.