If I Die in a Combat Zone by O'brien Tim

If I Die in a Combat Zone by O'brien Tim

Hailed as one of the finest books to emerge from the Vietnam War, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a fascinating insight into the lives of the soldiers caught in the conflict.

‘No one has written about the Vietnam War with the eloquence of Tim O’BrienIf I Die in a Combat Zone may be the single greatest piece of work to come out of Vietnam – on a level with World War II’s The Naked and the Dead and From Here to Eternity.’ Washington Star

‘A work of passion and protest … one of the few good things to come out of that desolating struggle.’ Guardian

‘A personal document of aching clarity … O’Brien brilliantly and quietly evokes the foot soldier’s daily life in the paddies and foxholes. A beautiful, painful book.’ New York Times Book Review

‘I wish O’Brien did not write so beautifully, for he makes it impossible to forget his book. Years from now it will still have that terrible power to make me remember and to make me weep.’ New York Times

‘O’Brien certainly ranks among the best writers we have.’ Joseph Heller

Tim O’Brien was born in Minnesota and served as a foot soldier in Vietnam from 1969 to 1970, and after graduate studies at Harvard worked as a reporter for the Washington Post. When ‘If I Die in a Combat Zone’ was published in 1973, it established him as one of the leading American writers of his generation, a status that was confirmed when ‘Going After Cacciato’ won the National Book Award for fiction.

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ISBN 13	9780007204977
ISBN 10	0007204973
Title	If I Die in a Combat Zone
Author	Tim O'brien
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2006-04-18
Number of pages	208
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