trade paperback, 233 pages
English language
Published May 8, 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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The Things They Carried (1990) is a collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O'Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War. His third book about the war, it is based upon his experiences as a soldier in the 23rd Infantry Division.
Subjects
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Fiction
- War stories, American