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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 .
Tim O'Brien (born October 1, 1946) is an American novelist who served as a soldier in the Vietnam War.Much of his writing is about wartime Vietnam, [1] and his work later in life often explores the postwar lives of its veterans.
Going After Cacciato is an anti-war novel written by Tim O'Brien and first published by Delacorte Press in 1978. The novel is set during the Vietnam War.It is told from the third person limited point of view of an American soldier, Paul Berlin.
The Man I Killed) is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Ernst Lubitsch and released by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay by Samson Raphaelson and Ernest Vajda is based on the 1930 play L'homme que j'ai tué by Maurice Rostand and its 1931 English-language adaptation, The Man I Killed , by Reginald Berkeley .
Although the inconclusive ending irritated many readers, O'Brien argued that this is the truest way to tell a story. It is reminiscent of his book, The Things They Carried, which presents several linked stories featuring different characters and sometimes differing perceptions of the same events.
"The Man He Killed" as it appeared in a 1910 edition of Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses "The Man He Killed" is a poem written by Thomas Hardy. Written in 1902, it was first published in Harper's Weekly, Nov. 8 1902. [1] The first book publication was in his Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses (London: Macmillan, 1909). [2]
Anthony Swofford (born August 12, 1970) is an American writer and U.S. Marine veteran, best known for his 2003 book Jarhead, based heavily on his accounts of various situations encountered in the Persian Gulf War.
Bowden noted that Swofford was first attracted to the Marine Corps somewhat paradoxically by the 1983 suicide bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut by the Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah (Arabic for the "Party of Allah") that killed 241 Marines, which for him confirmed that the Marines were the most bravest and macho of all the different ...