A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling.

The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O'Brien, who has

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A discussion of the causes, events, and aftermath of the longest and most controversial conflict in American history.

A tale of love amid war, of love against all odds, as a beautiful half-French, half-American nurse and the idealistic officer she loves struggle to survive in the chaos of Vietnam ...

A collection of photoessays, taken by photojournalist Larry Burrows, who was killed in action in Laos in 1971, and originally published in "Life," capture the emotions and tragedy, courage and suffering of the Vietnam War.