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First Edition First Printing of incredibly hard to find first book by incomparable author Tim O'Brien - IF I DIE IN A COMBAT ZONE BOX ME UP AND SHIP ME HOME if read by enough people would curtail the amount of armed conflict we find it necessary to engage in. Winner of the National Book Award for GOING AFTER CACCIATO, Tim's 5th book THE THINGS THEY CARRIED is standard required reading for a lot of colleges today, must read for the Army & understandably why. If you have not read Mr. O'Brien's work, you're missing out. I'm prejudice because he grew up about an hour away in Worthington, MN so his writing appeals to my regional sensibilities BUT he wouldn't be so well known if his writing didn't have a universal appeal to our sense of confliction when trying to assess weighing pride of country over intellectual insight that war is stupid. Read about it first hand from a 25 year old kid telling you about graduating from college, thinking about going to graduate school and then getting his draft notice to go to a jungle in Southeast Asia to kill people he knew little about.  
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| There've been the comparisons to Hemingway and well, that's all well and good, but Tim O'Brien will paint a vivid portrait of war and the effects it has on its participants that will make you wonder why we keep finding new outlets to repeat the miseries of history. When we went to see him speak a few years ago he had some good advice to college students (& the rest of us), to watch your grammar and study English, "Otherwise, you might grow up to be president of the United States." Thanks Tim! Vietnam related - although significantly greater in scope. If you want to know why fighting a poorly defined enemy with poorly defined objectives is such a lousy idea, read Tim O'Brien's books - your empathy for the foot soldier will grow in proportion to your ire at those who keep putting them in harm's way. Check out our 1st UK edition of this title in BOOKS-FIRST EDITIONS. Feel free to e-mail w/ any questions and THANKS FOR LOOKING! |
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