Book: The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

Paperback. Bought new, still like new. A collection of linked short stories about a platoon of American ground soldiers in Vietnam. Based on O'Brien's experiences in the 23rd Infantry Division. "O'Brien was dismayed that people in his home town seemed to have so little understanding of the war. It was partly in response to what he considered this ignorance that he wrote The Things They Carried. Many of the characters are semi-autobiographical, sharing similarities with people from his memoir If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home."