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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... read more
Summary
Tim is drafted for the vietnam war. He is afraid at first so he talks about fleeing to Canada or Sweden and he almost does. Then he realizes that going to war is the right thing to do even though he feels the war isn't just. He then talks about his life in the war and about how he is... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
First Sentence
It's incredible, it really is, isn't it?
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- Tim O'Brien (Author)
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