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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 .
The story's main character is Private First Class Paul Berlin. The story takes place during the Vietnam War. It is Paul's first day and he is having an extremely hard time-fighting anxiety and fear. One soldier in his platoon has already died from a heart attack. He was literally scared to death.
Major Problems in the History of the Vietnam War: Documents and Essays. McNeill, Ian (1993). To Long Tan: The Australian Army and the Vietnam War 1950–1966. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978-1-86373-282-6. Miller, Edward (2013). Misalliance: Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam. Harvard University Press.
The death count for U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War exceeded 58,000 before the government severed its involvement in 1973. A total of 395 fallen soldiers were from New Mexico, according to the ...
"Missing" is one of the two additional stories added in the later editions. This story is about an American soldier who stayed in Vietnam after the war and married a Vietnamese girl. The American soldier sees a photo of his face in a newspaper titled Missing. Because of this, he suspects that he is missing in Vietnam.
A short story by Bảo Ninh, "A Marker on the Side of the Boat" (Khắc dấu mạn thuyền), translated by Linh Dinh, is included in the anthology Night, Again. Bảo Ninh is also a successful essayist. He is interviewed in Ken Burns's series The Vietnam War.
"The New Lieutenant's Rap" is a short story by Stephen King. It was originally published as a limited run chapbook by Philtrum Press in 1999 and was later reworked into " Why We're in Vietnam ", a short story appearing in King's 1999 book Hearts in Atlantis .
"The Red Convertible" is a short story that appears in Love Medicine, a collection of narratives written in 1974 by American author Louise Erdrich. The story focuses on the relationship dynamics between Lyman Lamartine and his brother Henry, a soldier who was deployed in the Vietnam War.