Tim O'Brien’s If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home still resonates with freshness and punch even now, more than forty years after the end of the Vietnam War. O’Brien is a gifted writer, and those gifts are on display here. Asking young men to risk their lives for a war they do not believe in – and guerilla war at that – is a recipe for defeat. We walk along with O’Brien and other men who fought such a war. His gifts bring us there.
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