If I Die in a Combat Zone, Tim OBrien
If I Die in a Combat Zone, Tim OBrien
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If I Die in a Combat Zone
Box Me Up and Ship Me Home

Author: Tim O'Brien

Narrator: Dan John Miller

Unabridged: 5 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/26/2012

Synopsis

Before writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave us this 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 searingly heartfelt, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a masterwork of its genre.

About Tim O'Brien

Tim O'Brien received the 1979 National Book Award in fiction for Going After Cacciato. His other works include the acclaimed novels The Things They Carried and July, July. Also, In the Lake of the Woods received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians and was named the best novel of 1994 by Time. Tim lives in Austin, Texas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave

Since I am finally viewing the Ken Burns Vietnam documentary I have dreaded seeing, I decided to listen to this memoir O'Brien began writing in Nam thru his journal and letters. He actually published pieces of it soon after he returned to Minnesota. Like me, O'Brien read deeply into the war and took......more

Goodreads review by Jessaka

In memory If I die in a combat zone Box me up and ship me home Pin my metals on my chest Tell my mama I did my best.......more

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