If I die in a combat zone, box me up and ship me home
Tim O'Brien
- 1st Broadway Books trade pbk. ed.
- New York : Broadway Books, 1999.
- 209 p. ; 21 cm.
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?
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.