If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home by Tim O'Brien

If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home

Tim O'Brien

224 pages • first pub 1973 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir emotional reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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informative 74%
dark 70%
reflective 70%
emotional 51%
sad 44%
tense 37%
challenging 29%
adventurous 11%
funny 7%
inspiring 3%
mysterious 3%

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fast 30%
slow 15%

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