If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home [Paperback]

A classic from theNew York Timesbestselling author ofThe Things They Carried

One of the best, most disturbing, and most powerful books about the shame that was / is Vietnam.
—Minneapolis Star and Tribune

Before writing his award-winningGoing 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 Zoneis a masterwork of its genre.

Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content. O'Brien brilliantly and quietly evokes the foot soldier's daily life in the paddies and foxholes, evokes a blind, blundering war. . . . Tim O'Brien writes with the care and eloquence of someone for whom communication is still a vital possibility. . . . A personal document of aching clarity. . . . A beautiful, painful book.
—The New York Times Book Review

One of the best, most disturbing, and most powerful books about the shame that was / is Vietnam.
—Minneapolis Star and Tribune

Tim O’Brien received the 1979 National Book Award in fiction forGoing After Cacciato. His other works include the Pulitzer finalist and aNew York TimesBook of the Century,The Things They Carried; the acclaimed novelsTomcat in LoveandNorthern Lights; and the national bestselling memoirIf I Die in a Combat Zone. His novelIn the Lake of the Woodsreceived the James Fenimore Cooper Prize from the Society of American Historians and was named the best novel of 1994 byTime. In 2010 he received the Kathelc)