If I Die in a Combat Zone

Before writing his award-winningGoing 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 ghostly tunnels, and to explore the ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong. Beautifully written and searingly heartfelt,If I Die in a Combat Zoneis a masterwork of its genre.

Tim O'Brien received the 1979 National Book Award in Fiction for <b>Going After Cacciato</b>. His novel <b>The Things They Carried</b> won France's prestigious Prix de Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize. His two most recent novels, <b>In the Lake of the Woods</b> and <b>Tomcat in Love</b>, were national bestsellers.