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Format: Unabridged-CD, Paperback
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: Nov 2003
Genre: Fiction - War & Military
The Things They Carried is a masterful novel of the Vietnam War that has been called the greatest war novel ever written. The soldiers carried malaria tablets, love letters, 28-pound mine detectors, dope, illustrated Bibles, each other. And, if they made it home alive, they carried unrelenting images of a nightmarish war that history is only beginning to absorb, since its publication, 'The Things They Carried has become an unparalleled Vietnam testament, a classic work of american literature, and a profoun